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An Overview of Sales Analytics in Event Industry

BizAcuity

Some businesses in 2003 started using predictive analytics generating an average Return on Investment or ROI of 145% as per the study that was undertaken by IDC. With more and more information became readily available online in the mid 2000s, companies started taking advantage of it by leveraging big data analytics.

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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. The ROI of human involvement When it comes to human involvement, the key difference is in the magnitude of costs associated with any one forecast cycle. Our team does a lot of forecasting.