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CBAP certification: A high-profile credential for business analysts

CIO Business Intelligence

IIBA is a nonprofit professional association founded in 2003 to promote the field of business analysis. There must be a measurable learning objective or set of objectives that are directly applicable to changing the behavior or improving the skills of a business analyst. Applying for certification costs $145, which is nonrefundable.

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What Choice’s CIO sees in a cloud-native approach to sustainability

CIO Business Intelligence

A lot of this was, in recent years, borne out of a strong partnership with Amazon Web Services, so Choice became able to benefit from cost savings and energy efficiencies, while utilizing many related services AWS offers—such as analytics and AI—to advance its digital offerings. Here are some edited excerpts of that conversation.

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Humans-in-the-loop forecasting: integrating data science and business planning

The Unofficial Google Data Science Blog

Based on the decisions being made and how quickly plans can adjust to new forecast updates, what is the cost of forecasting too high or too low? If the costs of prediction error are asymmetric (e.g. What is the reduction in cost of a forecast that was improved by human intervention? 95th percentile). So what to do?