The Unofficial Google Data Science Blog

APRIL 23, 2024

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., Crucially, it takes into account the uncertainty inherent in our experiments. Here, $X$ is a vector of tuning parameters that control the system's operating characteristics (e.g.

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CIO Business Intelligence

JANUARY 6, 2023

The economists lament, “ A thick fog of uncertainty still surrounds us.” Uncertainty is our jam.” minutes of downtime per year), and expanding digital capabilities in a world characterized by massive economic, political, social, and technological uncertainty. After all, uncertainty is the one certainty.

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O'Reilly on Data

JUNE 15, 2023

If we want prosocial outcomes, we need to design and report on the metrics that explicitly aim for those outcomes and measure the extent to which they have been achieved. There is no simple way to solve the alignment problem. But alignment will be impossible without robust institutions for disclosure and auditing.

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Sisense

APRIL 20, 2020

Through understanding past crises and recent data in the world around us, we want to help everyday people understand how their choices will lead to a better outcome, dispel uncertainty and use data to chart, draw, and paint a better future.

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Occam's Razor

APRIL 8, 2013

To win in business you need to follow this process: Metrics > Hypothesis > Experiment > Act. We are far too enamored with data collection and reporting the standard metrics we love because others love them because someone else said they were nice so many years ago. That metric is tied to a KPI.

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CIO Business Intelligence

SEPTEMBER 15, 2023

Salesforce sees boomerang hires as a new success metric, the top executives said, adding that there still might be strategic layoffs in the future. The top executives said that some of the new positions are more likely to be filled by what the company terms as “boomerang” hires.

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O'Reilly on Data

MARCH 27, 2019

Forecasting uncertainty at Airbnb. Theresa Johnson outlines the AI powering Airbnb’s metrics forecasting platform. Watch " Forecasting uncertainty at Airbnb.". Watch " Winners of the Strata Data Awards 2019.". It’s in the game: A rare look into how EA brought data science into the creative process of game design.

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CIO Business Intelligence

SEPTEMBER 20, 2023

They are afraid of failure and the uncertainty of knowledge work, and so that’s stressful. Agile is an amazing risk management tool for managing uncertainty, but that’s not always obvious.” The key is recognizing that planning must be an agile discipline, not a standalone activity performed independently of agile teams.

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DataKitchen

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

The uncertainty of not knowing where data issues will crop up next and the tiresome game of ‘who’s to blame’ when pinpointing the failure. Moreover, advanced metrics like Percentage Regional Sales Growth can provide nuanced insights into business performance. One of the primary sources of tension?

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O'Reilly on Data

MARCH 31, 2020

Machine learning adds uncertainty. Underneath this uncertainty lies further uncertainty in the development process itself. There are strategies for dealing with all of this uncertainty–starting with the proverb from the early days of Agile: “ do the simplest thing that could possibly work.”

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Cloudera

DECEMBER 3, 2021

Systems should be designed with bias, causality and uncertainty in mind. Uncertainty is a measure of our confidence in the predictions made by a system. We need to understand and provide the greatest human oversight on systems with the greatest levels of uncertainty. System Design. Human Judgement & Oversight. Model Drift.

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Smart Data Collective

AUGUST 18, 2021

Although widely used, keyword scanning software alone simply doesn’t generate sufficient success metrics when sifting through candidate resumes. Even though you may hit it off with a candidate in an interview and be impressed with their resume, that doesn’t necessarily mean they’re the right fit for your business. Retaining staff.

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Rocket-Powered Data Science

JULY 19, 2023

For example, an exploration of historical data may reveal that an increase in customer satisfaction (or dissatisfaction) with one particular product is correlated with some other satisfaction (or dissatisfaction) metric downstream at a later date.

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Jet Global

MARCH 27, 2020

Now that every industry is facing a prolonged period of uncertainty, having access to accurate, up-to-date information is more critical than ever. With so much uncertainty on the horizon, everyone in the construction industry needs to be at the top of their game , especially in terms of finance and accounting. Bonding Capacity.

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CIO Business Intelligence

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

In economic uncertainty, it’s natural for executives to explore where to reduce spending, trim the fat , so to speak, and cut enterprising investments as a matter of caution. But this thinking is also counter-productive for all the reasons that make uncertainty so predictable. There’s much to be done.

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Jet Global

SEPTEMBER 28, 2020

COVID-19 introduces another level of uncertainty. Therefore, decision-makers need to track this metric constantly (ideally in real time) rather than getting weekly, daily, or even hourly updates. Lenders use this metric to inform financing decisions, which many utilities will need in the coming years to cover new construction costs.

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Key Performance Indicator Metrics Cost-Benefit Finance 98

Smart Data Collective

JULY 1, 2023

Consistency and agreement Establish an agreement metric (e.g., Address their questions and clarify any uncertainties promptly. Establish metrics for review Create specific metrics for measuring annotation quality and use them to evaluate both individual annotators and the overall annotation process.

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CIO Business Intelligence

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

Resilient cybersecurity Despite the clamour for new digital investments, Gartner’s analysts did recognise that this would represent a new cybersecurity risk, with some attributing the increased spending in security over the next year down to ongoing uncertainty regarding Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.

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IBM Big Data Hub

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

Government executives face several uncertainties as they embark on their journeys of modernization. The pain point tracker clusters the foundational data in which value metrics are then applied. frequency (how many occurrences?), time (how much time is lost?)

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CIO Business Intelligence

APRIL 27, 2023

At this time of dynamic business and market changes, uncertainty, and quickly evolving consumption models for IT infrastructure, every IT executive understands the benefits and necessity of network agility. Agile networks can respond quickly to changes in the market, customer demands, employee requirements, and technology advances.

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The Unofficial Google Data Science Blog

DECEMBER 4, 2019

This classification is based on the purpose, horizon, update frequency and uncertainty of the forecast. A single model may also not shed light on the uncertainty range we actually face. These characteristics of the problem drive the forecasting approaches.

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CIO Business Intelligence

JUNE 8, 2022

Digital disruption, global pandemic, geopolitical crises, economic uncertainty — volatility has thrown into question time-honored beliefs about how best to lead IT. Thriving amid uncertainty means staying flexible, he argues. . Demand transparency on everything — especially on metrics — and be transparent back.

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Jet Global

DECEMBER 3, 2019

PeopleSoft data automatically upload into dozens of pre-built templates designed to track the most important metrics and processes related to enterprise performance. The reports themselves even have drill-down capabilities that show users the data behind each metric. Taking Full Advantage of Better Data.

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The Unofficial Google Data Science Blog

JULY 18, 2023

Once we’ve answered that, we will then define and use metrics to understand the quality of human-labeled data, along with a measurement framework that we call Cross-replication Reliability or xRR. We will follow the example of Janson and Olsson , and start from this generalized definition of the metric, which they call iota.

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O'Reilly on Data

OCTOBER 13, 2020

Ideally, AI PMs would steer development teams to incorporate I/O validation into the initial build of the production system, along with the instrumentation needed to monitor model accuracy and other technical performance metrics. But in practice, it is common for model I/O validation steps to be added later, when scaling an AI product.

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DataKitchen

OCTOBER 2, 2023

A Data Journey supplies real-time statuses and alerts on start times, processing durations, test results, and infrastructure events, among other metrics. Data Journeys track and monitor all levels of the data stack, from data to tools to code to tests across all critical dimensions.

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CIO Business Intelligence

MARCH 23, 2023

As the world continues to experience economic uncertainty, IT leaders look to tighten budgets, consolidate tools and resources, and generally become more risk-averse when evaluating new investments. Consider your company scorecard: Your procurement team has a scorecard with clear metrics to evaluate purchase decisions. to just 2.2%

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CIO Business Intelligence

SEPTEMBER 22, 2022

And they introduced this idea, the VUCA world: Volatile, Uncertainty, Complex, and Ambiguous. So while vision will be disproportionately rewarded, uncertainty yields to understanding, complexity yields to clarity, and ambiguity yields to agility. On metrics: It’s been said a lot that data is the new oil.

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Smart Data Collective

FEBRUARY 14, 2023

Their research showed that economic policy uncertainty indicators and CBOE volatility index (VIX) indicators are better for predicting market volatility than financial indices. Therefore, these metrics are likely to be used by most predictive analytics tools used to ascertain risk. Are there any risks associated with asset allocation?

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CIO Business Intelligence

JUNE 2, 2022

Businesses today have faced greater levels of uncertainty than ever before. Time saved is an important metric for any DevOps administrator. By Milan Shetti, CEO Rocket Software. Ease of implementation and use.

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Jedox

DECEMBER 17, 2020

As businesses around the world look to move past the uncertainty and unprecedented change of 2020 and toward a fresh start in 2021, the discussion around FP&A maturity has been renewed. A: Rather than just a set of specific metrics, it is often more about how they organize themselves.

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Andrew White

DECEMBER 16, 2019

See Data and Analytics Strategies Need More-Concrete Metrics of Success. The article notes this as cognitive uncertainty. But it happens to relate closely to our analysis of business metrics and ROI being used to justify investment and report success. As such an ROI would have been impossible. It’s called ROAR.

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CIO Business Intelligence

APRIL 12, 2023

While customers worried about the uncertainty of orders being filled, customer service representatives were required to navigate through 10 different systems and data sources for answers. With workers dependent on a disjointed network, the conditions created by the pandemic made it all but impossible to consistently satisfy demand.

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Jet Global

OCTOBER 4, 2021

You measure it using three common financial metrics, namely, days of inventory (DOI), days of payables (DOP), and days sales outstanding (DSO). Although this may seem more like a financial metric, the cash to cash cycle time says a great deal about the efficiency of your supply chain management practices. #2. Perfect Order Rate.

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Jet Global

JUNE 23, 2020

As companies grapple with economic shutdowns, plummeting revenues, market instability, and economic uncertainty now and into the foreseeable future, they need financial insights more than ever before. Every accounting department handles financial reporting differently depending on its metrics, strategy, or audience.

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Jet Global

OCTOBER 8, 2020

And it’s possible to become lost in the minutiae of the many different metrics available to measure an organisation’s AR capabilities. Analysing the necessary data is a massive undertaking, and one that can draw finance professionals away from other tasks.

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Alation

OCTOBER 26, 2021

The glossary includes the definition of the metric and can point to the specific table containing the formula from which it is calculated. Data governance: Alation allows finance teams to easily identify business metric owners and connect these experts to the underlying data they know best, which supports better governance.

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