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Marketing as a strategic business partner: mixing theory, research and #data

Jen Stirrup

So, organizations need a cohesive strategy which aligns all methods of communication to ensure consistency (Porter, 2001). Data can help us to understand the research to explore and elicit reasons for avoidance of brands (Lee et al., 2001, Strategy and the Internet. Harvard business Review , (2001): 63-78. Levitt, T. &

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ML internals: Synthetic Minority Oversampling (SMOTE) Technique

Domino Data Lab

The problem with this approach is that in highly imbalanced sets it can easily lead to a situation where most of the data has to be discarded, and it has been firmly established that when it comes to machine learning data should not be easily thrown out (Banko and Brill, 2001; Halevy et al., References. link] Fisher, R.

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Data Science at The New York Times

Domino Data Lab

Chris Wiggins , Chief Data Scientist at The New York Times, presented “Data Science at the New York Times” at Rev. Wiggins also indicated that data science, data engineering, and data analysis are different groups at The New York Times. Data science. Session Summary.