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IT’s ‘war for talent’ is a losing battle

CIO Business Intelligence

In his 2001 best-seller, Good to Great: Why Some Companies Make the Leap and Others Don’t , author Jim Collins reminds us that “Great vision without great people is irrelevant.” Talent matters — but is ‘war’ the right metaphor?

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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). to 3.9% (UK Government, 2017). 2001, Strategy and the Internet. Harvard business Review , (2001): 63-78. UK Government 2017, Executive Summary. Porter, M.E. Porter, M.E., Weilbacher, W.M.

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Themes and Conferences per Pacoid, Episode 8

Domino Data Lab

My read of that narrative arc is that some truly weird tensions showed up circa 2001: Arguably, it’s the heyday of DW+BI. A very big mess since circa 2001, and now becoming quite a dangerous mess. See also the paper “ The Case for Open Metadata ” by Mandy Chessell (2017–04–21) at IBM UK for compelling perspectives about open metadata.

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Themes and Conferences per Pacoid, Episode 5

Domino Data Lab

In terms of teaching and learning data science, Project Jupyter is probably the biggest news over the past decade – even though Jupyter’s origins go back to 2001! Wes McKinney (2017). Aurélien Géron (2017). NASA persistently misspells Jupyter. So much of what you need for data science, gathered into one concise volume.

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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., Indeed, in the original paper Chawla et al.

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Themes and Conferences per Pacoid, Episode 12

Domino Data Lab

Consider the following timeline: 2001 – Physics grad students are getting hired in quantity by hedge funds to work on Wall St. Public Health Reports (2017-07-10). following a breakthrough paper or two, plus changes in market microstructure). 2008 – Financial crisis : scientists flee Wall St.