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Discussion: 2013 Wisdom of Crowds® Business Intelligence Market Study

Howard Dresner

Having just recently published our 2013 Wisdom of Crowds® Business Intelligence Market Study, the group attending one of my recent Friday #BIWisdom tweetchats on Twitter wanted more insights on several of the study’s findings. And financial metrics are a great starting place, especially for a public company.

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How Big Data Impacts The Finance And Banking Industries

Smart Data Collective

Nowadays, terms like ‘Data Analytics,’ ‘Data Visualization,’ and ‘Big Data’ have become quite popular. In this modern age, each business entity is driven by data. Data analytics are now very crucial whenever there is a decision-making process involved. The Role of Big Data. The Underlying Concept.

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Top 14 Must-Read Data Science Books You Need On Your Desk

datapine

“Big data is at the foundation of all the megatrends that are happening.” – Chris Lynch, big data expert. We live in a world saturated with data. Zettabytes of data are floating around in our digital universe, just waiting to be analyzed and explored, according to AnalyticsWeek. Wondering which data science book to read?

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Delivering More Impactful Insights From Your Cloud Data

Sisense

Every company is becoming a data company. In Data-Powered Businesses , we dive into the ways that companies of all kinds are digitally transforming to make smarter data-driven decisions, monetize their data, and create companies that will thrive in our current era of Big Data.

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The Value of Data for Philanthropy

Cloudera

In recent years, we have heard a great deal about how new and sophisticated understanding of how to interpret the onslaught of data produced in the modern age could help us turn the corner on major social and environmental problems. While we have been using data to improve philanthropy for years, a great deal has changed very quickly.

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Towards optimal experimentation in online systems

The Unofficial Google Data Science Blog

the weight given to Likes in our video recommendation algorithm) while $Y$ is a vector of outcome measures such as different metrics of user experience (e.g., Experiments, Parameters and Models At Youtube, the relationships between system parameters and metrics often seem simple — straight-line models sometimes fit our data well.

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Overcoming Common Challenges in Natural Language Processing

Sisense

In Talking Data , we delve into the rapidly evolving worlds of Natural Language Processing and Generation. Text data is proliferating at a staggering rate, and only advanced coding languages like Python and R will be able to pull insights out of these datasets at scale. Today, text data is everywhere. can’t” becomes “can not”).