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Can developer productivity be measured? Better than you think

CIO Business Intelligence

Measuring developer productivity has long been a Holy Grail of business. In addition, system, team, and individual productivity all need to be measured. This refers to assessing contributions to a team’s backlog. The company changed its operating model to ensure that they focused on what they did best. Talent capability.

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Measuring Validity and Reliability of Human Ratings

The Unofficial Google Data Science Blog

E ven after we account for disagreement, human ratings may not measure exactly what we want to measure. Researchers and practitioners have been using human-labeled data for many years, trying to understand all sorts of abstract concepts that we could not measure otherwise. That’s the focus of this blog post.

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Achieving cloud excellence and efficiency with cloud maturity models

IBM Big Data Hub

Cloud maturity models are a useful tool for addressing these concerns, grounding organizational cloud strategy and proceeding confidently in cloud adoption with a plan. Cloud maturity models (or CMMs) are frameworks for evaluating an organization’s cloud adoption readiness on both a macro and individual service level.

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Proposals for model vulnerability and security

O'Reilly on Data

Apply fair and private models, white-hat and forensic model debugging, and common sense to protect machine learning models from malicious actors. Like many others, I’ve known for some time that machine learning models themselves could pose security risks. This is like a denial-of-service (DOS) attack on your model itself.

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Dimensional modeling in Amazon Redshift

AWS Big Data

You can structure your data, measure business processes, and get valuable insights quickly can be done by using a dimensional model. Amazon Redshift provides built-in features to accelerate the process of modeling, orchestrating, and reporting from a dimensional model. Declare the grain of your data.

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When models are everywhere

O'Reilly on Data

Not all models are created equal, however: they operate on different principles, and impact us as individuals and communities in different ways. To understand the menagerie of models that are fundamentally altering our individual and shared realities, we need to build a typology, a classification of their effects and impacts.

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Build and share a business capability model with Amazon QuickSight

AWS Big Data

To collect that information, Bob gets in touch with the head of each department, who in turn refer him to their development leads, who in turn give him a bunch of technical documents that explain how APIs are being used. The model should be able to showcase to LOBs their categories and capabilities.