O'Reilly on Data

MAY 11, 2020

SCREENS, FEEDBACK, AND “THE ENTERTAINMENT”. In David Foster Wallace’s novel Infinite Jest , there is a video tape known as “The Entertainment.” The Entertainment” is not the result of algorithms, business incentives and product managers optimizing for engagement metrics. YOUTUBE, CONSPIRACY, AND OPTIMIZATION.

Modeling 188

Modeling Advertising Recreation/Entertainment Metrics 188

CIO Business Intelligence

MARCH 6, 2023

Advancements in analytics and AI as well as support for unstructured data in centralized data lakes are key benefits of doing business in the cloud, and Shutterstock is capitalizing on its cloud foundation, creating new revenue streams and business models using the cloud and data lakes as key components of its innovation platform.

Data Lake 59

Data Lake Cost-Benefit Recreation/Entertainment Experimentation 59

AWS Big Data

JUNE 20, 2023

Combined with the capabilities of Athena, Apache Iceberg delivers a simplified workflow for data scientists to create new data features without needing to copy or recreate the entire dataset. Datasets are usually stored in either JSON, CSV, ORC, or Apache Parquet format, or similar read-optimized formats for fast read performance.

Data Lake 75

Data Lake Data Science Recreation/Entertainment Experimentation 75

Domino Data Lab

JULY 2, 2019

SQL optimization provides helpful analogies, given how SQL queries get translated into query graphs internally , then the real smarts of a SQL engine work over that graph. The query graph provides metadata that gets leveraged for optimizations at multiple layers of the relational database stack. SQL and Spark. That’s good stuff.

Metadata 105

Metadata Machine Learning Data Science Data-driven 105

Occam's Razor

NOVEMBER 2, 2015

The benefits are numerous. YouTube has democratized entertainment and education. Economic Value (EcV) is the value of short and long-term revenue and cost savings. The serious point is that when we choose to invest in Social Media, it comes at a cost. The opportunity cost. Those are some big gigantic numbers!

B2B 167

B2B Metrics Testing Recreation/Entertainment 167

Occam's Razor

SEPTEMBER 15, 2014

Company UX leaders are happy to stink less by taking the sub-optimal path of responsive design, rather than create a mobile-unique experience (your customers tend to do different things on your desktop site than your mobile site!). Media-Mix Modeling/Experimentation. Media-Mix Modeling/Experimentation. Many reasons.

Metrics 141

Metrics Reporting Analytics Marketing 141