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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. In 2011, another update — dubbed ITIL 2011 — was published under the Cabinet Office. The five volumes remained, and ITIL 2007 and ITIL 2011 remained similar.

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Knowledge Graphs for Open Science

Ontotext

Expensive paywalls used by publishers, restrictive usage policies by scientific literature sources, a lack of consistency in the formatting and data locked away by proprietary software have all had detrimental effects on the dissemination of scientific knowledge. Publishers Are Changing Too.

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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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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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Measuring Maturity

Peter James Thomas

The author, engaged in measuring maturity – © Jennifer Thomas Photography – view full photo. In the thirteen years that have passed since the beginning of 2007, I have helped ten organisations to develop commercially-focused Data Strategies [1].

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SEC’s climate disclosure rule proposal explained

IBM Big Data Hub

The rule proposal would require US publicly traded companies to disclose annually how their businesses are assessing, measuring and managing climate-related risks. This would include disclosure of greenhouse gas emissions as a measure of exposure to climate-related risk.

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Global Multichannel Consumer Behaviour (Research/Purchase) Analysis

Occam's Razor

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!), It is SUPER important to passionately measure the offline impact of your online efforts until the day you die (cue, dramatic music). It is an intense amount of effort.