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The history of ESG: A journey towards sustainable investing

IBM Big Data Hub

It refers to a set of metrics used to measure an organization’s environmental and social impact and has become increasingly important in investment decision-making over the years. But while the term ESG was first coined in 2004 by the United Nations Global Compact, the concept has been around for much longer.

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Excellent Analytics Tips #20: Measuring Digital "Brand Strength"

Occam's Razor

Bonus One: Read: Brand Measurement: Analytics & Metrics for Branding Campaigns ]. There are many different tools, both online and offline, that measure the elusive metric called brand strength. I believe it is one of the best possible ways to measure what humanity is thinking, and telling us via the queries they run on Google.

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Elevating Healthcare Staffing: From Spreadsheet Chaos to Data-Driven Decisions  

InsightOut

The journey from its inception in 2004 to becoming an industry pacesetter involved the amalgamation of six dynamic brands into what is now known as Caliber. Their commitment to quality and continuity of patient care has positioned them as a trusted partner in the healthcare community across the United States.

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Smarten Augmented Analytics Receives CERT-IN Certification for Its Products and Services!

Smarten

It was initiated in 2004 by the Department of Information Technology for implementing the provisions of the 2008 Information Technology Amendment Act. CERT-IN also issues advisories, guidelines and white papers for security practices.

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Dark secrets of developer motivation

CIO Business Intelligence

Measure the right outputs. Of course, the industry has matured a lot since McConnell’s book was released in 2004, and everyone pretty much understands the need for the cogitating phase of software development. Nobody likes to be treated like a line item on the budget.

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Eating the Knowledge Soup, Literally

Ontotext

Sowa, computer scientist and inventor of conceptual graphs, introduced about back in 2004 to characterize “the fluid, dynamically changing nature of the information that people learn, reason about, act upon, and communicate.” (ref. We are still wrapping our heads (and processors) around the knowledge soup we are all in.

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Our quest for robust time series forecasting at scale

The Unofficial Google Data Science Blog

Hand-Drawn Time Series of Google “Results Pages”, November 1998 through July 2004. First, the system may not be understood, and even if it was understood it may be extremely difficult to measure the relationships that are assumed to govern its behavior. Crucially, our approach does not rely on model performance on holdout samples.