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Is it worth measuring software developer productivity? CIOs weigh in

CIO Business Intelligence

This has spurred interest around understanding and measuring developer productivity, says Keith Mann, senior director, analyst, at Gartner. Streamlining to optimize productivity Agile software development is essential to innovate and retain competitiveness. Instead, it might be this emphasis on streamlining processes that matters most.

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Towards optimal experimentation in online systems

The Unofficial Google Data Science Blog

the weight given to Likes in our video recommendation algorithm) while $Y$ is a vector of outcome measures such as different metrics of user experience (e.g., Taking measurements at parameter settings further from control parameter settings leads to a lower variance estimate of the slope of the line relating the metric to the parameter.

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What is GRC? The rising importance of governance, risk, and compliance

CIO Business Intelligence

The need to manage risk, adhere to regulations, and establish processes to govern those tasks has been part of running an organization as long as there have been businesses to run. Furthermore, the State of Risk & Compliance Report, from GRC software maker NAVEX, found that 20% described their programs as early stage. What is GRC?

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Data Mining Technology Helps Online Brands Optimize Their Branding

Smart Data Collective

By analyzing data and extracting useful insights, brands can make informed decisions to optimize their branding strategies. This article will explore data mining and how it can help online brands with brand optimization. Predicting Customer Churn Data mining can be used to predict which customers are at risk of leaving a brand.

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Optimizing IT resources through infrastructure, people, and processes

CIO Business Intelligence

When respondents were asked what modernization imperatives are causing them to lose sleep at night, the need to improve overall IT performance (60%) topped the list, followed by data security (50%), process risk and compliance (46%), and the need to improve agility (41%). Learn more about how companies can optimize their IT.

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Managing risk in machine learning

O'Reilly on Data

There are also many important considerations that go beyond optimizing a statistical or quantitative metric. As we deploy ML in many real-world contexts, optimizing statistical or business metics alone will not suffice. Classification parity means that one or more of the standard performance measures (e.g.,

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AWS Clean Rooms proof of concept scoping part 1: media measurement

AWS Big Data

In this post, we outline planning a POC to measure media effectiveness in a paid advertising campaign. We chose to start this series with media measurement because “Results & Measurement” was the top ranked use case for data collaboration by customers in a recent survey the AWS Clean Rooms team conducted. and CTV.Co