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Measuring Validity and Reliability of Human Ratings

The Unofficial Google Data Science Blog

E ven after we account for disagreement, human ratings may not measure exactly what we want to measure. Researchers and practitioners have been using human-labeled data for many years, trying to understand all sorts of abstract concepts that we could not measure otherwise. That’s the focus of this blog post.

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

Occam's Razor

To win in business you need to follow this process: Metrics > Hypothesis > Experiment > Act. We are far too enamored with data collection and reporting the standard metrics we love because others love them because someone else said they were nice so many years ago. That metric is tied to a KPI.

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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., Experiments, Parameters and Models At Youtube, the relationships between system parameters and metrics often seem simple — straight-line models sometimes fit our data well.

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How CIOs can unite sustainability and technology

CIO Business Intelligence

Given how important sustainability metrics are to companies and their stakeholders, it is crucial to identify why it is taking so long for some organizations to jump on board with new technological innovations to implement meaningful change. of CO2 in 2007, the industry has now risen to 4% today and will potentially reach 14% by 2040. .

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What is ITIL? Your guide to the IT Infrastructure Library

CIO Business Intelligence

Later, the ITIL Refresh Project in 2007 consolidated the ITIL to five volumes consisting of 26 process and functions — this is referred to as the ITIL 2007 edition. The five volumes remained, and ITIL 2007 and ITIL 2011 remained similar. In 2011, another update — dubbed ITIL 2011 — was published under the Cabinet Office.

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Make Every Sprint Count with DevOps Analytics

Sisense

DevOps first came about in 2007-2008 to fix problems in the software industry and bring with it continuous improvement and greater efficiencies. If the main goal is to bring about efficiencies, shouldn’t there be some measurement available to make sure the target is being met? This is the ultimate measurement. The Process.

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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. The calculation methodology and query performance metrics are similar to those of the preceding chart.