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How CIOs can unite sustainability and technology

CIO Business Intelligence

of CO2 in 2007, the industry has now risen to 4% today and will potentially reach 14% by 2040. . In fact, companies that adopt sustainable technology to a significant extent achieve 4% higher ESG scores from Arabesque S-Ray , a global specialist in measuring ESG metrics. . Producing only 1.5%

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Combine transactional, streaming, and third-party data on Amazon Redshift for financial services

AWS Big Data

The following are some of the key business use cases that highlight this need: Trade reporting – Since the global financial crisis of 2007–2008, regulators have increased their demands and scrutiny on regulatory reporting. Apart from generating regulatory reports, these teams require visibility into the health of the reporting systems.

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The Luck of The Irish: The Rise in Air Traffic & Irish Economic Growth

Sisense

Economic performance was measured by GDP, and this is where modern Irish economic history and our study intersect. T he value of the Irish economy is now close to €300 billion, 56 percent higher than at the Celtic Tiger peak of 2007. Explore the Interactive Dashboard. In 2018 it was reported that Irish economic growth was 7.8

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Experiment design and modeling for long-term studies in ads

The Unofficial Google Data Science Blog

by HENNING HOHNHOLD, DEIRDRE O'BRIEN, and DIANE TANG In this post we discuss the challenges in measuring and modeling the long-term effect of ads on user behavior. Nevertheless, A/B testing has challenges and blind spots, such as: the difficulty of identifying suitable metrics that give "works well" a measurable meaning.

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The Lean Analytics Cycle: Metrics > Hypothesis > Experiment > Act

Occam's Razor

First, you figure out what you want to improve; then you create an experiment; then you run the experiment; then you measure the results and decide what to do. For each of them, write down the KPI you're measuring, and what that KPI should be for you to consider your efforts a success. Measure and decide what to do.

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Towards optimal experimentation in online systems

The Unofficial Google Data Science Blog

the weight given to Likes in our video recommendation algorithm) while $Y$ is a vector of outcome measures such as different metrics of user experience (e.g., Taking measurements at parameter settings further from control parameter settings leads to a lower variance estimate of the slope of the line relating the metric to the parameter.

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Global Multichannel Consumer Behaviour (Research/Purchase) Analysis

Occam's Razor

Note: The IAB (Interactive Advertising Bureau) and Google both benefit in their own way from the use of digital platforms. I spend 70% of my time in the US and for those discussions I'm primary looking at speed (connection above), mobile penetration (yes, 2007 was the year of mobile!), Most of the outcomes may still be offline.