Uploaded November 2025 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago

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In this video, Soroush Saghafian, founder and director of the Public Impact Analytics Science Lab (PIAS-Lab) at Harvard University and author of "Insight-Driven Problem Solving", explains what inspired him to write his book.

Insights from analytics science have had large-scale impact on improving public policies, reducing crime, addressing climate change, controlling pandemics, and reducing disruption in supply chains. In "Insight-Driven Problem Solving" Saghafian shows how combining AI, data science, OR, optimization, statistics, and economics has made the world a better place.

Learn more at cambridge.org/9781009379120