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How Etihad taps data science to optimise airline operations

CIO Business Intelligence

Despite the worldwide chaos, UAE national airline Etihad has managed to generate productivity gains and cost savings from insights using data science. They also wanted to be able to demonstrate cost reductions. Financial benefits and cost savings became a big driver in quite a lot of the use cases shortlisted by Etihad.

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Big Data Creates Massive Changes for the Game of Golf

Smart Data Collective

Since its conception, many individual athletes and teams have optimized their performances with the latest technology while enhancing entertainment value for fans. In 2003, a development that triggered the revolution of data happened when CDW partnered with PGA Tour with a ball-tracking system that is more advanced, known as ShotLink.

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Data Modeling 201 for the cloud: designing databases for data warehouses

erwin

Static over-provisioning or dynamic scaling will run up monthly cloud costs very quickly on a bad design. So, you really should get familiar with your cloud providers sizing vs. cost calculator. If I can cut down on the CPU and memory needs, I can cut this cost significantly. Look at Figure 1 below. So please avoid snowflakes.

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Materialized Views in Hive for Iceberg Table Format

Cloudera

Queries containing joins, filters, projections, group-by, or aggregations without group-by can be transparently rewritten by the Hive optimizer to use one or more eligible materialized views. Materialized views can be partitioned on one or more columns. This can potentially lead to orders of magnitude improvement in performance.

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PODCAST: COVID19 | Redefining Digital Enterprises – Episode 6: The Impact of COVID-19 on Supply Chain Management

bridgei2i

It is even more essential now that supply chains are empowered with a high standard of data and analytics sophistication to be able to cost-effectively serve the company’s purpose and combat risks at the same time. And I’m sure our listeners will benefit from this. Anushruti: Perfect. Love the simile, by the way.

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

The Unofficial Google Data Science Blog

by THOMAS OLAVSON Thomas leads a team at Google called "Operations Data Science" that helps Google scale its infrastructure capacity optimally. 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? Our team does a lot of forecasting.