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Data Discussion Lessons from Brad Pitt

Juice Analytics

From: Ocean's Eleven (2001) Now imagine yourself giving a pep talk to the next email, PowerPoint slide, or dashboard that you are about to send out. How exactly is this metric calculated? But don’t be that presenter who stares incessantly at your metrics and goals. How was it collected and who was involved?

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Use AWS Glue ETL to perform merge, partition evolution, and schema evolution on Apache Iceberg

AWS Big Data

Data files in snapshots are stored in one or more manifest files that contain a row for each data file in the table, its partition data, and its metrics. Run the job again to add orders 2001 and 2002, and update orders 1001, 1002, and 1003. Run the job again to add order 3001 and update orders 1001, 1003, 2001, and 2002.

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Whither Real Interest Rates for the next 30 Years?

Andrew White

China joined the WTO in 2001 lowering, at a stroke, global wages. It has been declining or flat for 20-30 years, depending on what metrics you use. I found The Great Demographic Reversal , by Charles Goodhart and Manoj Pradhan, enlightening. Demographics do seem to be at play over the long haul.

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What is ITIL? Your guide to the IT Infrastructure Library

CIO Business Intelligence

ITIL 4 contains seven guiding principles that were adopted from the most recent ITIL Practitioner Exam, which covers organizational change management, communication, and measurement and metrics. How does ITIL reduce costs? Corporations and public sector organizations that have successfully implemented ITIL best practices report huge savings.

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Data science vs. machine learning: What’s the difference?

IBM Big Data Hub

Other challenges include communicating results to non-technical stakeholders, ensuring data security, enabling efficient collaboration between data scientists and data engineers, and determining appropriate key performance indicator (KPI) metrics. ” “Data science” was first used as an independent discipline in 2001.

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11 Digital Marketing “Crimes Against Humanity”

Occam's Razor

Making lame metrics the measures of success: Impressions, Click-throughs, Page Views. Use metrics that matter: Loyalty, Recency , Net Profit, Conversation Rate, Message Amplification , Brand Evangelist Index , Customer Lifetime Value and so on and so forth. all stink worse than Amorphophallus Titanum. How can you not love that?

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To Balance or Not to Balance?

The Unofficial Google Data Science Blog

We use performance metrics such as bias and mean squared error for the estimation of $delta$, our causal estimand of interest, defined as the average effect of treatment on the treated. Random forest with default R tuning parameters (Breiman, 2001). 2001): 5-32. The methods used are: Covariate balance: EB. Random forests."