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The history of ESG: A journey towards sustainable investing

IBM Big Data Hub

It refers to a set of metrics used to measure an organization’s environmental and social impact and has become increasingly important in investment decision-making over the years. But while the term ESG was first coined in 2004 by the United Nations Global Compact, the concept has been around for much longer.

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Smarten Augmented Analytics Receives CERT-IN Certification for Its Products and Services!

Smarten

It was initiated in 2004 by the Department of Information Technology for implementing the provisions of the 2008 Information Technology Amendment Act. After completion of the testing procedure, the certificate is provided to show that all requirements were met.

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What Is Hyperautomation?

O'Reilly on Data

Selenium , the first tool for automated browser testing (2004), could be programmed to find fields on a web page, click on them or insert text, click “submit,” scrape the resulting web page, and collect results. But the core of the process is simple, and hasn’t changed much since the early days of web testing. What’s required?

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Compliance bias in mobile experiments

The Unofficial Google Data Science Blog

An experimenter, once their candidate product change is ready for testing, often needs only to write a few lines of configuration code to begin an experiment. In the Google Play app store , challenges such as these regularly occur, as the basic framework of mobile technology introduces many wrinkles in experimentation and measurement.

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Unintentional data

The Unofficial Google Data Science Blog

Yet when we use these tools to explore data and look for anomalies or interesting features, we are implicitly formulating and testing hypotheses after we have observed the outcomes. We must correct for multiple hypothesis tests. In addition to the issues above, does the conclusion pass the smell test?

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Why Data Driven Decision Making is Your Path To Business Success

datapine

By implementing the right reporting tools and understanding how to analyze as well as to measure your data accurately, you will be able to make the kind of data driven decisions that will drive your business forward. Qualitative data analysis is based on observation rather than measurement. 9) Set measurable goals for decision making.

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SOX Compliance Guide

Jet Global

In a 2004 interview, Senator Paul Sarbanes said of the events that led to the act’s passage: “The Senate Banking Committee undertook a series of hearings on the problems in the markets that had led to a loss of hundreds and hundreds of billions, indeed trillions of dollars in market value. Establish safeguards to set timelines.