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Rising Tide Rents and Robber Baron Rents

O'Reilly on Data

Instead of continuing to deploy their attention optimization algorithms for their users’ and suppliers’ benefit, the tech giants began to use them to favor themselves. The most-clicked sponsored products were 17% more expensive and 33% lower ranked according to Amazon’s own quality, price, and popularity optimizing algorithms.

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How Big Data Impacts The Finance And Banking Industries

Smart Data Collective

A 2013 survey conducted by the IBM’s Institute of Business Value and the University of Oxford showed that 71% of the financial service firms had already adopted analytics and big data. It can come in handy when tracking, analyzing, and sharing metrics connected with employee performance. The Underlying Concept.

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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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What is ITIL? Your guide to the IT Infrastructure Library

CIO Business Intelligence

ITIL 4 contains seven guiding principles that were adopted from the most recent ITIL Practitioner Exam, which covers organizational change management, communication, and measurement and metrics. Since 2013, ITIL has been owned by Axelos — a joint venture between the Cabinet Office and Capita. How does ITIL reduce costs?

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Delivering More Impactful Insights From Your Cloud Data

Sisense

Current, on-premises data platforms are not yielding optimal results for businesses. Previously, he held leadership roles in analytics and operations, including launching the company’s first paid SaaS offerings at Square and helping Tremor Video IPO in 2013. Scalable cloud solutions: The future of data and analytics.

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Google Analytics Tips: 10 Data Analysis Strategies That Pay Off Big!

Occam's Razor

It will be the same in 2013. On top of the graph click on Select A Metric and choose Goal Conversion Rate. It has unique built in drill-downs, customized metrics that give you the ability to deeply analyze mobile data by devices, search behavior and content content consumption (click on each tab). Very handy. I hear you.

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It's Not The Ink, It's The Think: 6 Effective Data Visualization Strategies

Occam's Razor

There is only one simple message above, and just two metrics that matter. It also forces a lot less think than might be optimal. Everything seems sub-optimal. Yes, text can be optimized. It can be any of the numerous brand metrics avilable to us. It should have just focused on those two. Interesting trend.