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How Will The Cloud Impact Data Warehousing Technologies?

Smart Data Collective

This data is then processed, transformed, and consumed to make it easier for users to access it through SQL clients, spreadsheets and Business Intelligence tools. Data warehousing also facilitates easier data mining, which is the identification of patterns within the data which can then be used to drive higher profits and sales.

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The trinity of errors in financial models: An introductory analysis using TensorFlow Probability

O'Reilly on Data

They trade the markets using quantitative models based on non-financial theories such as information theory, data science, and machine learning. Whether financial models are based on academic theories or empirical data mining strategies, they are all subject to the trinity of modeling errors explained below. Not even close.

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Towards optimal experimentation in online systems

The Unofficial Google Data Science Blog

Springer New York, 2006. [17] Improving the sensitivity of online controlled experiments by utilizing pre-experiment data. Proceedings of the Sixth ACM International Conference on Web Search and Data Mining, WSDM ’13, page 123–132, New York, 2013. [28] Mathematics and Its Applications. Springer Netherlands, 2013. [16]

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Misleading Statistics Examples – Discover The Potential For Misuse of Statistics & Data In The Digital Age

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Based on the structure of the chart, it does in fact appear to show that the number of abortions since 2006 experienced substantial growth, while the number of cancer screenings substantially decreased. 3) Data fishing. This misleading data example is also referred to as “data dredging” (and related to flawed correlations).