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12 famous ERP disasters, dustups and disappointments

CIO Business Intelligence

The company was forced to develop new processes to keep information flowing around the business, and hire a third-party consultant to sort out the ERP system at a cost of $3.8 Attributing an exact cost to the ERP failure is difficult, as the company faced additional challenges from a poor avocado harvest in Mexico around the same time.

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What Is DataOps? Definition, Principles, and Benefits

Alation

However, there is a lot more to know about DataOps, as it has its own definition, principles, benefits, and applications in real-life companies today – which we will cover in this article! DataOps as a term was brought to media attention by Lenny Liebmannin 2014, then popularized by several other thought leaders. What Is DataOps?

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IT leaders uplift women to fill tech talent gaps

CIO Business Intelligence

Her pitch laid the groundwork for a pilot program in which Gusto covered the cost of a seven-month, full-time bootcamp while continuing to pay McGrath a salary and maintain her benefits and vesting. Lain McGrath, benefits engineer, Gusto. There is this notion of gateway roles into technology,” Frank says. Staying the course.

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6 business risks of shortchanging AI ethics and governance

CIO Business Intelligence

In 2014, Amazon built AI-powered recruiting software that overwhelmingly preferred male candidates. If a correlation uncovered by the algorithm is weak, doctors might be subjecting patients to unnecessary tests that would be a waste of time and money for the hospital. Was the problem in the model, or in its implementation?

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Assessing and interviewing data engineers from a distance

Insight

Since 2014, Insight been successfully running a fully distributed and fully remote interviewing process that has helped us sift through thousands of applications and identify top-tier candidates who have joined our Fellowship programs and gone on to work as data engineers at Netflix, Facebook, Vanguard, Apple, Bosch, and others.

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To Balance or Not to Balance?

The Unofficial Google Data Science Blog

Other estimators, such as those based on matching and subclassification, may benefit from the balancing property, but the discussion of those estimators is postponed to a later post. This algorithm is implemented in the SuperLearner R package (Polley & van der Laan, 2014).

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Stablecoins: Solving the cryptocurrency volatility crisis

O'Reilly on Data

Stablecoins have the opportunity to reap the benefits of cryptocurrencies while mitigating price volatility to acceptable levels. Smart contracts can run at cost without intermediaries carving out high margins, a paradigm similar to well-run public utilities. Value opportunity: Open platforms. Stablecoin history.