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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.

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Sentry’s David Cramer on bootstrapping a unicorn

CIO Business Intelligence

Sentry was started as an open source project by David Cramer in 2008 to provide monitoring services for application developers. David Cramer: I love the open source community so I would build a lot of things in open source to interact with my peers. million developers today. How did that happen?

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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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Experiment design and modeling for long-term studies in ads

The Unofficial Google Data Science Blog

Nevertheless, A/B testing has challenges and blind spots, such as: the difficulty of identifying suitable metrics that give "works well" a measurable meaning. Second, even if we could account for all of them, it would still be difficult to predict which ones interact with the A/B treatment (most of them don’t), and what the effect would be.

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A perfect match: How tech promoted a small soccer team to the top

CIO Business Intelligence

Thanks to this injection of capital, which allowed it to improve its squad through new hires, Hoffenheim finally reached the Germany’s first division in the 2007-2008 season. It was the beginning of a close relationship between SAP and Hoffenheim, which continues today.

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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. Ratios much less than one mean “the provider has significantly better performance than the state as a whole,” and conversely, ratios larger than one mean worse performance.

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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. In 2019, Gartner saw a 36% increase in IRM client inquiry by business leaders.

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