Managing with Data, Analytics and AI

Lecture 1: Syllabus and Models

Robert W. Walker

Outline

• Syllabus
• Overview
• What is a Model?

Canvas

• Files
• Pages
• Syllabus
• Assignments

Syllabus

On Canvas

Website

BUS 1301

Course Tools

• Docs or Word.
  
• Sheets or Excel.
  
• NotebookLM.
  
• Gemini.

What is a Model?

From OED: A representation of structure, and related senses.

Your reading for next time explores this and interacting with it and an LLM is your assignment.

What is an LLM?

A model of lots of language?

On LLM’s

• What are they?
• How do they work?
• The corpus
• Thinking Like AI
• Attention is all you need….

An Assignment for Next Time