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Quality Control Tips for Data Collection with Drone Surveying

Smart Data Collective

Here at Smart Data Collective, we never cease to be amazed about the advances in data analytics. We have been publishing content on data analytics since 2008, but surprising new discoveries in big data are still made every year. Do an Overcast Survey to Ensure You Get Reliable Data.

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Accountancy Today: A new reality: coronavirus’s impact on financial planning

Jet Global

Elsewhere, it was the worst weekly decline for stocks since the 2008 financial crisis. Financial planning is only as good as the data that supports the calculations. Rolling forecasts that incorporate data collected from local managers provide the financial intelligence business need to guide their actions.

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How Data Ethics Supports Governance & Monetisation

Alation

In the Cambridge Analytica case, the company went from a data strategy focused on monetisation by increased revenue to company closure due to the reputational damage from the negative media and public response. Clearly, using private Facebook data collected in a nefarious manner to sway political elections is not ethical.

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Our quest for robust time series forecasting at scale

The Unofficial Google Data Science Blog

They can arise from data collection errors or other unlikely-to-repeat causes such as an outage somewhere on the Internet. If unaccounted for, these data points can have an adverse impact on forecast accuracy by disrupting seasonality, holiday, or trend estimation. to 1.5%.

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

Occam's Razor

But it is often a million times simpler to create your first set of benchmarks using your own data/performance. If you've read my first book Web Analytics: An Hour A Day, you know that I've advocated this strategy since 2008! There are four reasons, again from Web Analytics: An Hour A Day, from 2008 (!):

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Preprocess and fine-tune LLMs quickly and cost-effectively using Amazon EMR Serverless and Amazon SageMaker

AWS Big Data

The Common Crawl corpus contains petabytes of data, regularly collected since 2008, and contains raw webpage data, metadata extracts, and text extracts. In addition to determining which dataset should be used, cleansing and processing the data to the fine-tuning’s specific need is required.

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ML internals: Synthetic Minority Oversampling (SMOTE) Technique

Domino Data Lab

Further, imbalanced data exacerbates problems arising from the curse of dimensionality often found in such biological data. Insufficient training data in the minority class — In domains where data collection is expensive, a dataset containing 10,000 examples is typically considered to be fairly large.