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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. How does ITIL help business? How does ITIL reduce costs?

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Data science vs. machine learning: What’s the difference?

IBM Big Data Hub

Other challenges include communicating results to non-technical stakeholders, ensuring data security, enabling efficient collaboration between data scientists and data engineers, and determining appropriate key performance indicator (KPI) metrics. ” “Data science” was first used as an independent discipline in 2001.

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Reclaiming the stories that algorithms tell

O'Reilly on Data

In 2001, just as the Lexile system was rolling out state-wide, a professor of education named Stephen Krashen took to the pages of the California School Library Journal to raise an alarm. The report has pages of careful caveats, but in the end it treats these risk-adjusted ratios as a good measure of a surgeon’s performance.

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To Balance or Not to Balance?

The Unofficial Google Data Science Blog

Choose the weights $alpha$ that minimize the cross-validated risk: $hatalpha =argmin_{alpha} frac{1}{J}sum_{j=1}^Jfrac{1}{|mathcal V_j|}sum_{iin mathcal V_j} L(M_i, hat e_{alpha, mathcal T_j})$ subject to $quad 0 leq alpha_kleq 1, sum_{k=1}^Kalpha_k=1,$ and define the final estimator as $hat e_{hatalpha}(x)$. 2001): 5-32.

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Data Science, Past & Future

Domino Data Lab

What I’m trying to say is this evolution of system architecture, the hardware driving the software layers, and also, the whole landscape with regard to threats and risks, it changes things. You see these drivers involving risk and cost, but also opportunity. I can point to the year 2001. All righty. Where did this happen?

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Estimating the prevalence of rare events — theory and practice

The Unofficial Google Data Science Blog

Of course, any mistakes by the reviewers would propagate to the accuracy of the metrics, and the metrics calculation should take into account human errors. If we could separate bad videos from good videos perfectly, we could simply calculate the metrics directly without sampling. The missing verdicts create two problems.

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ML internals: Synthetic Minority Oversampling (SMOTE) Technique

Domino Data Lab

Working with highly imbalanced data can be problematic in several aspects: Distorted performance metrics — In a highly imbalanced dataset, say a binary dataset with a class ratio of 98:2, an algorithm that always predicts the majority class and completely ignores the minority class will still be 98% correct. return synthetic. Chawla et al.