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Edmunds sets stage for AI with data infrastructure consolidation

CIO Business Intelligence

Rokita has been with Edmunds for more than 18 years, starting as executive director of technology in 2005. His role now encompasses responsibility for data engineering, analytics development, and the vehicle inventory and statistics & pricing teams. The data warehouse is about past data, and models are about future data.

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New Thinking, Old Thinking and a Fairytale

Peter James Thomas

Of course it can be argued that you can use statistics (and Google Trends in particular) to prove anything [1] , but I found the above figures striking. Computerworld – Gartner: Customer-service outsourcing often fails , Scarlet Pruitt, March 2005. Source: Google Trends. – Gartner 2007. “60-70% – CIO.com 2010. “61%

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Data Science, Past & Future

Domino Data Lab

He was saying this doesn’t belong just in statistics. He also really informed a lot of the early thinking about data visualization. It involved a lot of interesting work on something new that was data management. To some extent, academia still struggles a lot with how to stick data science into some sort of discipline.