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How to Gain Greater Confidence in your Climate Risk Models

Cloudera

The Bank of England has taken a leadership position in publishing disclosures related to its own progress on climate-related initiatives. Stress testing was heavily scrutinized in the post 2008 financial crisis. Alignment : the steps needed to adjust and determine next steps (ex. Changes in investment portfolios).

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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. For example in ads, experiments using cookies (users) as experimental units are not suited to capture the impact of a treatment on advertisers or publishers nor their reaction to it.

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Reclaiming the stories that algorithms tell

O'Reilly on Data

Ever since 1989, the state has periodically published a report card that rates each surgeon, by name, based on how many of that surgeon’s patients died in hospital or within 30 days after coronary artery bypass surgery. There are about 150 cardiac surgeons in New York State, for instance.

Risk 355
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ML internals: Synthetic Minority Oversampling (SMOTE) Technique

Domino Data Lab

Working with highly imbalanced data can be problematic in several aspects: Distorted performance metrics — In a highly imbalanced dataset, say a binary dataset with a class ratio of 98:2, an algorithm that always predicts the majority class and completely ignores the minority class will still be 98% correct. Morgan Kaufmann Publishers Inc.

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Data Science, Past & Future

Domino Data Lab

You know, typically, when you think about running projects, running teams, in terms of setting the priorities for projects, in terms of describing, what are the key metrics for success for a project, that usually falls on product management. It was also the year, 2001, when “ Agile Manifesto ” was published.

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Blogs and Resources for the Modern CFO – 2020 Edition

Jet Global

Another nice aspect of the blog is that it frequently publishes the results of surveys conducted by the CFOSP. Since its launch during the 2008 financial crisis, Planet Money, a podcast from National Public Radio, has won many awards. This makes the blog almost seem like a curated news feed for financial executives.

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Where Programming, Ops, AI, and the Cloud are Headed in 2021

O'Reilly on Data

The data includes all usage of our platform, not just content that O’Reilly has published, and certainly not just books. We’ve explored usage across all publishing partners and learning modes, from live training courses and online events to interactive functionality provided by Katacoda and Jupyter notebooks. Starting with Python 3.0