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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. In 1995, the U.S

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Climate Innovators in the Information Age

CIO Business Intelligence

According to a recent McKinsey report , global sustainable investment is more than $30 trillion, a tenfold increase from 2004. Global sustainable investment considers “ESG [environmental, social, and governance] factors in portfolio selection and management across seven strategies of sustainable or responsible investment.

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Excellent Analytics Tips #20: Measuring Digital "Brand Strength"

Occam's Razor

Bonus One: Read: Brand Measurement: Analytics & Metrics for Branding Campaigns ]. There are many different tools, both online and offline, that measure the elusive metric called brand strength. The graph shows the change over time, starting in Jan 2004. This is a lot more interesting.

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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. What will cause those trends to end, and what strategies will the business need to adopt? Automating this process is simple.

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Compliance bias in mobile experiments

The Unofficial Google Data Science Blog

However the strategy of waiting until all (who will comply) have received the treatment is useful as a ground truth for evaluating our methods in the following. Propensity scoring within the treatment We now explore statistical strategies for estimation that account for the difference in users who experience the treatment. Ten, et al.

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Unintentional data

The Unofficial Google Data Science Blog

With more features come more potential post hoc hypotheses about what is driving metrics of interest, and more opportunity for exploratory analysis. Looking at metrics of interest computed over subpopulations of large data sets, then trying to make sense of those differences, is an often recommended practice (even on this very blog).

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Why Data Driven Decision Making is Your Path To Business Success

datapine

While sometimes it’s okay to follow your instincts, the vast majority of your business-based decisions should be backed by metrics, facts, or figures related to your aims, goals, or initiatives that can ensure a stable backbone to your management reports and business operations. 1) Guard against your biases. 2) Define objectives.