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The history of ESG: A journey towards sustainable investing

IBM Big Data Hub

It refers to a set of metrics used to measure an organization’s environmental and social impact and has become increasingly important in investment decision-making over the years. However, it wasn’t until the 1990s that ESG considerations started to appear in mainstream investment strategies. In 1995, the U.S

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Here’s How Data Analytics In Sports Is Changing The Game

Smart Data Collective

Increasingly, soccer teams look at stats such as expected goals (Xg) as a key metric to understand underlying performance levels other than the actual scoreline. Oakland Athletics become famous in the 2002 season for a 20-game winning streak. These indicators may include the player’s sprint speed or distance covered per goal.

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Use AWS Glue ETL to perform merge, partition evolution, and schema evolution on Apache Iceberg

AWS Big Data

Lake Formation tag-based access control (LF-TBAC) is an authorization strategy that defines permissions based on attributes. Data files in snapshots are stored in one or more manifest files that contain a row for each data file in the table, its partition data, and its metrics. In Lake Formation, these attributes are called LF-Tags.

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PODCAST: COVID19 | Redefining Digital Enterprises – Episode 13: Digital Sales Enablement is a gamechanger in the post-COVID era

bridgei2i

My name is Aruna Babu, and I’m a transformation consultant who spent a good part of the last decade crafting strategy that marries business technology and user needs. And it was funny cause I was going through a book that my business partner Barry Trailer and I wrote back in 2002. We’ve got, I actually have metrics.

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PODCAST: COVID19 | Redefining Digital Enterprises – Episode 13: Digital Sales Enablement a gamechanger in the post-COVID era

bridgei2i

My name is Aruna Babu, and I’m a transformation consultant who spent a good part of the last decade crafting strategy that marries business, technology and user needs. And it was funny cause I was going through a book that my business partner Barry Trailer and I wrote back in 2002. We’ve got, I actually have metrics.

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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. In their 2002 paper Chawla et al.

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Credit Card Fraud Detection using XGBoost, SMOTE, and threshold moving

Domino Data Lab

from sklearn import metrics. There are different approaches to this strategy, with the two most commonly used being random oversampling and SMOTE. In this context, offsetting the threshold in a way that reduces the false negatives at the expense of false positives becomes a viable strategy. 16, 1 (January 2002), 321–357. [3]