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

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Accordingly, data modelers must embrace some new tricks when designing data warehouses and data marts. Data modeling for the cloud: good database design means “right size” and savings. Now to cover some data modeling basics that applies no matter whether on-premises or in the cloud. Data Modeling. Business Focus.

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5 rules that transform outsourcing outcomes

CIO Business Intelligence

For organizations seeking a collaborative win-win approach to outsourcing, the Vested sourcing business model is worth consideration. It is the product of nearly 20 years of research at the University of Tennessee, beginning with a deep-dive funded by the United States Air Force on outcome-based outsourcing in 2003.

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How Etihad taps data science to optimise airline operations

CIO Business Intelligence

Based in Abu Dhabi and in operation since 2003, in recent years Etihad has used a data lake and a unified set of AI-driven analytics tools to optimise staffing, the handling of passengers, and responses to customer inquiries. Etihad wanted to deploy, schedule and automate their data models very rapidly. Talal Mufti. Martin Hammer.

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An Overview of Sales Analytics in Event Industry

BizAcuity

Sales Analytics in simple terms can be defined as the process used to identify, understand, predict and model sales trends and sales results and in this process of understanding of these trends helps its users in finding improvement points. Image Source: [link].

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

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You know the markets shake and the accompanying Swine Flu epidemic of 2015 and 2016, the Japanese tsunami and the Thailand floods in 2011 that shook up the high-tech value chain quite a bit, the great financial crisis and the accompanying H1N1 outbreak in 2008-2009, MERS and SARS before that in 2003.

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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. Others argue that there will still be a unique role for the data scientist to deal with ambiguous objectives, messy data, and knowing the limits of any given model.

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Using Empirical Bayes to approximate posteriors for large "black box" estimators

The Unofficial Google Data Science Blog

But most common machine learning methods don’t give posteriors, and many don’t have explicit probability models. More precisely, our model is that $theta$ is drawn from a prior that depends on $t$, then $y$ comes from some known parametric family $f_theta$. Here, our items are query-ad pairs. Calculate posterior quantities of interest.

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