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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 solution should be scalable, cost-efficient, and straightforward to adopt and operate.

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Benchmarking Performance: Your Options, Dos, Don'ts and To-Die-Fors!

Occam's Razor

If you've read my first book Web Analytics: An Hour A Day, you know that I've advocated this strategy since 2008! Conversion rate is one of those metrics that I strongly encourage you only create benchmarks for from your own data. There are four reasons, again from Web Analytics: An Hour A Day, from 2008 (!):

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Reclaiming the stories that algorithms tell

O'Reilly on Data

These report cards have changed the way that cardiac surgeons in New York do their jobs, but thirty years on, it’s still not clear whether the metrics make things better. When and why is this algorithmic bargain of simplification and standardization really worth its cost? How can those costs be minimized?

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Emerging Trends: 4 IRM Market Insights to Aid COVID-19 Business Recovery

John Wheeler

Offer capabilities to analyze business impacts at all levels of the organization by linking both strategic and tactical risk metrics. In addition, 73% of the 760 IRM client interactions in 2019 were business leader focused1. It will remain as a new way of conducting business in a cost-optimized, more efficient environment.

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Deep Learning Illustrated: Building Natural Language Processing Models

Domino Data Lab

[Note: In more technical machine learning terms, the cost function of the skip-gram architecture is to maximize the log probability of any possible context word from a corpus given the current target word.] A major benefit of fastText. Interactive bokeh plot of two-dimensional word-vector data. this chapter. Example 11.9

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Data Visualization Inspiration: Analysis To Insights To Action, Faster!

Occam's Razor

Short story #2: Predictive Modeling, Quantifying Cost of Inaction. Three cool benefits: 1. You can hover over each box to get a sense of the key metrics. You get a confusing little thing, but the visualization is interactive. Short story #2: Predictive Modeling, Quantifying Cost of Inaction.

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11 Financial Model Examples & Templates for 2021

Jet Global

Financial modeling involves combining key accounting, finance, and business metrics to build an abstract representation, or model, of a company’s financial situation. It is typically used to predict future revenues, expenses, and capital costs. A cost-saving initiative within a company. What Is Financial Modeling? M&A Model.