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

The Unofficial Google Data Science Blog

With those stakes and the long forecast horizon, we do not rely on a single statistical model based on historical trends. It provides the occasion for deeper exploration of which inputs that can be influenced and which risks can be proactively managed. The alternative we use is the forecast triangulation framework described above.

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Per Scholas redefines IT hiring by diversifying the IT talent pipeline

CIO Business Intelligence

When CEO Plinio Ayala joined Per Scholas in 2003, he noticed there weren’t enough skilled technicians to fix the hardware the organization collected. It was just talking about how computers work and the theory of code and the theory of statistical analysis and how best to write your code,” says Wilson.

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

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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. You know, Chief Risk Officers, for example, will no longer be confined to the credit industry. Anushruti: Perfect.

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The trinity of errors in applying confidence intervals: An exploration using Statsmodels

O'Reilly on Data

We develop an ordinary least squares (OLS) linear regression model of equity returns using Statsmodels, a Python statistical package, to illustrate these three error types. CI theory was developed around 1937 by Jerzy Neyman, a mathematician and one of the principal architects of modern statistics.