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Modernize a legacy real-time analytics application with Amazon Managed Service for Apache Flink

AWS Big Data

Near-real-time streaming analytics captures the value of operational data and metrics to provide new insights to create business opportunities. These metrics help agents improve their call handle time and also reallocate agents across organizations to handle pending calls in the queue.

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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.

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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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11 Digital Marketing “Crimes Against Humanity”

Occam's Razor

Making lame metrics the measures of success: Impressions, Click-throughs, Page Views. Use metrics that matter: Loyalty, Recency , Net Profit, Conversation Rate, Message Amplification , Brand Evangelist Index , Customer Lifetime Value and so on and so forth. all stink worse than Amorphophallus Titanum. How can you not love that?

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Data Science, Past & Future

Domino Data Lab

He also really informed a lot of the early thinking about data visualization. It involved a lot of work with applied math, some depth in statistics and visualization, and also a lot of communication skills. I can point to the year 2001. It was also the year, 2001, when “ Agile Manifesto ” was published.

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Reclaiming the stories that algorithms tell

O'Reilly on Data

Each of the classroom’s library books has a color coded sticker on its spine reflecting its Lexile score—a visual announcement of its official complexity level, and thus of which students might be officially ready to read it. This whole scoring system also changes the story about who librarians and teachers are.

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