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Top 15 project management certifications

CIO Business Intelligence

The exam covers topics including Scrum, Kanban, Lean, extreme programming (XP), and test-driven development (TDD). 11, 2001, terrorist attacks to address issues of cyberterrorism and the information security of nations at large. Candidates can also take a self-test to benchmark their knowledge. Certified ScrumMaster (CSM).

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Agile Reporting for the Manufacturing Industry: 5 Tips for Success

Jet Global

In 2001, a group of software developers got together at a ski resort in the Wasatch mountains of Utah and drew up a document they called the “Agile Manifesto.” They rejected the classic waterfall model of software development in favor of an iterative approach in which initial prototypes are delivered and tested early in the process.

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Data Science at The New York Times

Domino Data Lab

Because I’m an academic I like to look at the original founding documents. Here is an ancient document about data science, specifically a piece by Jeff Hammerbacher. The other ancient and canonical document for trying to explain to people above me what we do in the data science group is this one. Good, okay.

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To Balance or Not to Balance?

The Unofficial Google Data Science Blog

A naïve way to solve this problem would be to compare the proportion of buyers between the exposed and unexposed groups, using a simple test for equality of means. Random forest with default R tuning parameters (Breiman, 2001). This fact is well documented by Kang & Schafer (2007). CBPS (exact and over-parameterized).

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Themes and Conferences per Pacoid, Episode 8

Domino Data Lab

They sold off most of the company later, retaining some of its IP, and are known to have kept copies of internal documents. 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.

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Themes and Conferences per Pacoid, Episode 12

Domino Data Lab

The second rule of Foo Camp concerns a practice called “FrieNDA” where people speak candidly and others respect that without either (1) “Oh gosh I must live tweet stream this amazing insight” or (2) anybody having to sign legal documents. Have you run any A/B tests yet or written a one-pager describing a Minimum Viable Product?”.