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The history of ESG: A journey towards sustainable investing

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It refers to a set of metrics used to measure an organization’s environmental and social impact and has become increasingly important in investment decision-making over the years. In response, asset managers began to develop ESG strategies and metrics to measure the environmental and social impact of their investments.

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Remove Your Rose Tinted Glasses: Data Visualizations Designed to Mislead

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From political issues to sports statistics and the recent report you received on the ROI of your company blog, the internet as well as informational reports are flooded with examples of misleading data visualization. If you want to go deeper into the topic, take a look at our misleading statistics blog post.

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Sustainability trends: 5 issues to watch in 2024

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This can be quantified by measuring metrics like tree cover, habitat integrity and number of species, and is guided by sustainable development principles. .” Similar to “carbon neutral” in the context of emissions, nature positive refers to stopping, avoiding and reversing environmental destruction.

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The Rise of Unstructured Data

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This blog discusses quantifications, types, and implications of data. For example, the number of hyperscale centres is reported to have doubled between 2015 and 2020. Source Integrity and Measurement Accuracy : ensuring that prior human decisions and judgments (e.g., Quantifications of data. And data moves around.

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Top 10 Management Reporting Best Practices To Create Effective Reports

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In this blog post, we’re going to give a bit of background and context about management reports, and then we’re going to outline 10 essential best practices you can use to make sure your reports are effective. Management reporting is a source of business intelligence that helps business leaders make more accurate, data-driven decisions.

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Experiment design and modeling for long-term studies in ads

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by HENNING HOHNHOLD, DEIRDRE O'BRIEN, and DIANE TANG In this post we discuss the challenges in measuring and modeling the long-term effect of ads on user behavior. Nevertheless, A/B testing has challenges and blind spots, such as: the difficulty of identifying suitable metrics that give "works well" a measurable meaning.

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How to build more sustainable transportation infrastructure

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and China, but also in developing countries where outdated equipment must be replaced or brought up to modern standards to meet the goals set out by the 2015 Paris Climate accords. Learn more about IBM Maximo Application Suite The post How to build more sustainable transportation infrastructure appeared first on IBM Blog.