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What is ITIL? Your guide to the IT Infrastructure Library

CIO Business Intelligence

ITIL’s systematic approach to IT service management (ITSM) can help businesses manage risk, strengthen customer relations, establish cost-effective practices, and build a stable IT environment that allows for growth, scale, and change. The two bodies formed an alliance at the end of 2006 to further IT service management.

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To Balance or Not to Balance?

The Unofficial Google Data Science Blog

It should be noted that inverse probability weighting is not generally optimal (i.e., We do this by describing the methods in terms of loss functions whose expectation is optimized at the true value of the propensity score. This algorithm is implemented in the SuperLearner R package (Polley & van der Laan, 2014).

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Data Science at The New York Times

Domino Data Lab

In 2001, Bill Cleveland writes this article saying, “You are doing it wrong.” or are you looking for me to help you decide on what is the optimal treatment in order to get the outcome you want?” They want to know what’s the optimal treatment. ” Inside my group I say.