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Beverly Wright, PhD, CAP

Welcome to The Beverly Orbit, where you get your
regular dose of news relating to Beverly Wright
Ph.D. CAP, an Atlanta native currently working as
VP - Data Science & AI / CAIO (Wavicle Data Solution), Professor, Director of Center for Applied Business Analytics (UofSC), National Speaker, Podcast host, Board chair & member (INFORMS, TAG), Data Science for Good Leader, and plenty more! She currently balances her time between her family, career, volunteer work, and her beloved dog, Kisses Amber!

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Academia

Practitioner / Client-Side​

Consultant

Board Engagement​

Community Support

Relevant Publications​

Academia

Back Then
Georgia Tech
Clinical professor and analytics center director​
University of South Carolina
Client professor and analytics center director​
Others
Georgia State University, East Carolina University, Clayton State University
And Now
University of Georgia, Executive Education
Director of Data Science & AI Programs​
Georgia Tech
Board member and volunteer, Master’s of Science in Analytics program​
Emory Center for Ethics
Board member​
Miami Data College, AI Center
Board member​
Regular Lecturer
Kennesaw State University, Berry College, Georgia State University, Arizona State University, Perdue University, University of Texas – Arlington

Practioner /Client-Side

  • Awareness and Positioning Expertise​
  • Served as Team Leader / Individual Contributor​
  • One of Less than a Thousand Certified Analytics Professionals ​
  • Industry thought leader​
  • Overseen or personally built hundreds of models​
  • Follows high ethical standards, applies scientific method, manages data science & AI lifecycle​
  • Data Science & AI Community Builder​
  • Business Problem Framing Expertise​

consultant

Adept at working with clients to understand their business needs
Invests in client environment / context (have visited industrial plants, sat with contact center agents, etc.)​
Advisory capacity for data science and AI questions from high level strategy to lowest tactical level methodologies

Organizational Board Engagement​

Organizational
Board
Engagement​

Technology Association of Georgia
  • Chair for Data Science & AI Society
  • Events
  • Initiatives
  • TAG Data Talk Podcast
  • Conferences
  • FOR GOOD Initiative (working with nonprofits for annual hackathon and summer purpose projects)​
INFORMS
  • Analytics Society​
  • Practice Section​
  • Upstate SC
  • Chapters: Atlanta, Charlotte, Chicago​

Community
Support ​

Vulnerable Populations​
  • TAG Data Science & AI – FOR GOOD Initiative​
  • Annual competition​
  • Summer purpose projects​
Data Science & AI Community​
  • Optimize AI Conference – EMCEE​
  • Data Science Connect – speaker for annual conference (Collide) and break out gatherings (Align AI)​

Relevant
Publications​

  • Building a Data Science Ecosystem (2023) ​
  • Business Framing for Analytics
  • Online Survey Research: Can Response Factors Be Improved?
  • Application Of Media Richness Theory To Data Collection
  • The Changing Landscape Of Marketing Research: A Study Of Marketing Consultants​
  • Corporate Social Media: A Typology of ConsumersView Publications
  • The Online Learning Environment: Delivering Quality?
  • Profile of Corporate Social Media Consumer Segments
  • The Influence Of Atmospherics In Consumer Research Data Collection
  • An Evaluation of the Consumer Ethnocentric Scale (CETSCALE) Among Chinese Consumers.
  • The Power of Can't: Reactance & Product Preference Among Young Consumers
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