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Big Data Paves The Way For Fantastic New Social Listening Tools

Smart Data Collective

For example, the company Tweetdeck was ahead of their game when they recognized the need for businesses to engage with their customers back in 2009. Synthesio is a social listening tool that allows brands to measure the impact of online conversations against their business goals.

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The Lean Analytics Cycle: Metrics > Hypothesis > Experiment > Act

Occam's Razor

We are far too enamored with data collection and reporting the standard metrics we love because others love them because someone else said they were nice so many years ago. First, you figure out what you want to improve; then you create an experiment; then you run the experiment; then you measure the results and decide what to do.

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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. Dua, D., & Graff, C.

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Themes and Conferences per Pacoid, Episode 9

Domino Data Lab

The lens of reductionism and an overemphasis on engineering becomes an Achilles heel for data science work. Instead, consider a “full stack” tracing from the point of data collection all the way out through inference. measure the subjects’ ability to trust the models’ results. training data”) show the tangible outcomes.

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Mobile Marketing 2015: Rethink Customer Acquisition, Intent Targeting

Occam's Razor

2009 was the year of mobile. If your company has a non-stinky mobile website and mobile app then congratulations: you have successfully solved the problem of 2009! Measurement? It would not be my blog if there was not at least a word about measurement. Everything described above is measureable. Celebrate a little.

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Explaining black-box models using attribute importance, PDPs, and LIME

Domino Data Lab

but it generally relies on measuring the entropy in the change of predictions given a perturbation of a feature. PDPs for the bicycle count prediction model (Molnar, 2009). Courville, Pascal Vincent, Visualizing Higher-Layer Features of a Deep Network, 2009. Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining, pp.

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6 Case Studies on The Benefits of Business Intelligence And Analytics

datapine

Because things are changing and becoming more competitive in every sector of business, the benefits of business intelligence and proper use of data analytics are key to outperforming the competition. The fifth benefit of implementing business intelligence and data analytics into your company is the use of predictive analytics.