Occam's Razor

JANUARY 31, 2017

Ten years, and the 944,357 words, are proof that I love purposeful data, collecting it, pouring smart strategies into analyzing it, and using the insights identified to transform organizations. In our case, every table, every slide that comes from a piece of data, has to pass the so what test. simplification and 2.

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Visualization IT Strategy Key Performance Indicator 148

CIO Business Intelligence

APRIL 5, 2023

Shurts was CIO for Cadbury, Supervalu, and then for food distribution giant Sysco when he was appointed to his first board, for Con-Way Freight and Trucking, then a $5 billion public company, in 2015. He said that the board is all about helping management craft a strategy, but letting management execute on it,” says Shurts.

Finance 52

Finance Digital Transformation Strategy Technology 52

CIO Business Intelligence

MARCH 27, 2024

Il Data Strategy Index incluso nel report rileva che solo il 20% delle grandi aziende italiane ha una strategia avanzata sui dati. Insomma: mentre i CIO lavorano per costruire una solida data strategy aziendale, l’intelligenza artificiale e la Generative AI alzano ulteriormente la sfida. “La

Data Governance 52

Data Governance Data Lake Data Strategy Data-driven 52

IBM Big Data Hub

AUGUST 8, 2023

and China, but also in developing countries where outdated equipment must be replaced or brought up to modern standards to meet the goals set out by the 2015 Paris Climate accords. Both strategies help enterprises better plan for maintenance and avoid costly shutdowns that can impact the entire business.

Internet of Things 68

Internet of Things IoT Cost-Benefit Optimization 68

CIO Business Intelligence

SEPTEMBER 6, 2022

It launched its first online-only brand, Very, in 2009 and finally abandoned its printed catalogs to go all-in online in 2015. In a first test of the technology, he used Alation to catalog a subset of Very’s data held in an old Teradata database. In those situations, he says, you need to tell yourself: “Get back to your strategy.

IT 87

IT Forecasting Data Lake Enterprise 87

CIO Business Intelligence

MAY 17, 2022

The following real-world implementation issues highlight prominent risks every IT leader must account for in putting together their company’s AI deployment strategy. In 2015, Google’s Photos app labeled pictures of black people as “gorillas.” Public relations disasters.

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Risk Consulting Machine Learning Data Science 144

Jen Stirrup

OCTOBER 21, 2019

I am mentoring and leading them, while delivering the project, setting a vision, generating and implementing data strategies, and slowly helping to mould the culture to be more data-driven as well as insight-driven. In the Art of War, one strategy is to decide when to expend your energy and when to conserve energy. Further Reading.

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datapine

MAY 9, 2019

By gaining the ability to understand which datasets are relevant to particular goals, strategies, and initiatives in your organization, you’ll be able to identify trends or patterns that will help you make significant improvements in a number of key areas within the organization. They prevent you from drowning in data. followed by 18 zeros.

Business Intelligence 270

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CIO Business Intelligence

MARCH 22, 2022

He has assisted the top management in planning IT strategies and leveraging technologies for rationalizing manpower, enhancing organizational productivity, and improving the efficiency of operations. He brings expertise in developing IT strategy, digital transformation, AI engineering, process optimization and operations.

Internet Publishing and Broadcasting 98

Internet Publishing and Broadcasting Digital Transformation Insurance Recreation/Entertainment 98

Rita Sallam

APRIL 2, 2023

Are there mitigation strategies that show reasons for optimism? Are there mitigation strategies that can be implemented successfully that could provide policy guidance and reasons for optimism in the face of ever increasing frequency of extreme weather events? Here is the link to Qlik’s BI Bake-Off video.

Optimization 52

Optimization Machine Learning Insurance Risk 52

Hurwitz & Associates

MAY 21, 2019

New additions include: a Web Console to help administrators more easily manage multiple environments; a Universal Base Image (UBI) to help developers create pre-tested golden images for different container environments; and Insights for analytics on operations data. A Closer Look at OpenShift 4.

Software 40

Software Enterprise Machine Learning Management 40

Occam's Razor

JANUARY 9, 2012

A huge part of the last few years for me have been about bringing more data, better strategies, more powerful tools, ever more impactful keynotes to people around the world. Get the senior-most people in the largest companies in the world to unlock their imaginations when it comes to their digital existence via impactful digital strategies.

Marketing 140

Marketing B2B Measurement Risk 140

The Unofficial Google Data Science Blog

JULY 22, 2020

by ALEXANDER WAKIM Ramp-up and multi-armed bandits (MAB) are common strategies in online controlled experiments (OCE). These strategies involve changing assignment weights during an experiment. The first is a strategy called ramp-up and is advised by many experts in the field [1].

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IBM Big Data Hub

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

While SAP released their next-generation ERP, S/4HANA, in 2015 and announced its plans to discontinue the support for ECC by 2027, more than 60% of customers have yet to initiate their move to S/4HANA 1. We’ll work with you to build and support a non-disruptive and cost-effective execution strategy for S/4HANA transformation with RISE.

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Cost-Benefit Data Processing Consulting ROI 72

Occam's Razor

DECEMBER 3, 2012

But a robust digital marketing strategy for medium- or large-sized businesses encompasses so much more. What is a good way to self-identify gaps in strategy, to discover the mistakes that might be making your strategy sub-optimal? Is Your Digital Strategy Magnificent? Reality, as is its wont, is much more complex.

Marketing 147

Marketing Advertising Strategy Optimization 147

CIO Business Intelligence

AUGUST 8, 2022

With the environmentally conscious consumer in mind, the Vancouver-based designer and manufacturer had been developing a three-wheeled, single-passenger EV called the SOLO since 2015. Potential drivers were required to call customer service for a test drive or reservation, rather than scheduling those services online.

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Manufacturing Finance Testing Sales 101

The Unofficial Google Data Science Blog

APRIL 23, 2024

It is also a sound strategy when experimenting with several parameters at the same time. To find optimal values of two parameters experimentally, the obvious strategy would be to experiment with and update them in separate, sequential stages. Some practical advice This section mentioned strategies for mitigating model uncertainty.

Experimentation 52

Experimentation Optimization Uncertainty Metrics 52

The Unofficial Google Data Science Blog

JUNE 30, 2016

A naïve way to solve this problem would be to compare the proportion of buyers between the exposed and unexposed groups, using a simple test for equality of means. See Hainmueller (2012), and the work of Zhao & Percival (2015) for more details on how this optimization problem is solved, and for further discussion. 2014): 243-263.

Statistics 44

Statistics Optimization Modeling Experimentation 44

IBM Big Data Hub

MARCH 29, 2024

GraphQL GraphQL is a query language and API runtime that Facebook developed internally in 2012 before it became open source in 2015. As such, understanding the distinctions between the two is integral to any organization’s IT management strategy. GraphQL is defined by API schema written in the GraphQL schema definition language.

Interactive 78

Interactive Digital Transformation Management Optimization 78

BizAcuity

MAY 10, 2022

Companies planning to scale their business in the next few years without a definite cloud strategy might want to reconsider. 14 years later, in 2020, the pandemic demands for remote work, and overnight revisions to business strategy. He puts forth a mobile-first, cloud-first strategy. What’s so special about the Cloud?

Data-driven 52

Data-driven IoT Unstructured Data Data Lake 52

AWS Big Data

JULY 26, 2023

OpenSearch Serverless applies different sharding and indexing strategies for the three available collection types: time series, search, and vector search. From preview to GA and beyond Today, we are excited to announce the preview of the vector engine, making it available for you to begin testing it out immediately.

Metadata 52

Metadata Cost-Benefit Testing Metrics 52

Sisense

FEBRUARY 24, 2021

But that number rose sharply afterwards, with the team noting there were over 1,000 people in this role by 2015. CDOs who have an outward focus for collaboration are more concerned about aligning data strategy with external vendors, suppliers, and customers. Value impact dimension: Service vs. strategy.

Data Warehouse 69

Data Warehouse Big Data Metrics Visualization 69

AWS Big Data

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

Implementation strategy Based on these requirements, we changed strategies and started analyzing each issue to identify the solution. This will make launching and testing models simpler. This introduces the need for both polling and pushing the data to access and analyze in near-real time. In his spare time, he enjoys hiking.

Optimization 52

Optimization Forecasting Data Lake Metadata 52

Insight

JUNE 10, 2019

Photo by Wayne Chan on Unsplash The race to the future I don’t know about you, but I distinctly remember a promise from 1989 that flying cars would be commonplace by 2015. Transfer learning applied to ResNet50 CNN Training results The final accuracy of the model, when tested on a subset of the training data, was 97%.

Breakeven 69

Breakeven Modeling Testing Marketing 69

Domino Data Lab

JULY 2, 2019

For more background about program synthesis, check out “ Program Synthesis Explained ” by James Bornholt from 2015, as well as the more recent “ Program Synthesis in 2017-18 ” by Alex Polozov from 2018. For details, see their SIGMOD 2015 paper where Michael Armbrust & co. This field is guaranteed to get interesting. SQL and Spark.

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Metadata Machine Learning Data Science Data-driven 105

Occam's Razor

SEPTEMBER 15, 2014

Nothing I can tell you about the importance of having an incredible mobile strategy will surprise you. If you look at the mobile marketing strategies, you will see they don't reflect this shift to mobile. Create a distinct mobile website and mobile app measurement strategies. Many reasons. CEOs still don't get it.

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Metrics Reporting Analytics Marketing 141

The Unofficial Google Data Science Blog

MARCH 31, 2016

Thompson sampling is an "explore/exploit" algorithm which was designed for Bayesian models, and its strategy is to randomly select a choice (called an "arm") with probability proportional to the posterior of that choice being the best option. both L1 and L2 penalties; see [8]) which were tuned for test set accuracy (log likelihood).

Modeling 40

Modeling Statistics Advertising Testing 40

O'Reilly on Data

DECEMBER 9, 2019

We use the diagnostic test results of our regression model to support the reasons why CIs should not be used in financial data analyses. Winston Churchill could just as well have been talking about CIs instead of Russia’s world war strategy when he said, “It is a riddle, wrapped in a mystery, inside an enigma; but perhaps there is a key.”

Statistics 27

Statistics Uncertainty Risk Marketing 27

Domino Data Lab

JULY 9, 2019

A “data scientist” might build a multistage processing pipeline in Python, design a hypothesis test, perform a regression analysis over data samples with R, design and implement an algorithm in Hadoop, or communicate the results of our analyses to other members of the organization in a clear and concise fashion.

Data Science 112

Data Science Machine Learning Advertising Modeling 112

Cloudera

NOVEMBER 10, 2022

By deploying a tested methodology with data insights at the center, Generation serves tens of thousands of people who are unemployed, underemployed, or need to learn new skills every year. Since its inception in 2015, Generation has supported more than 68,000 graduates across 43 professions and 17 countries.

Cost-Benefit 92

Cost-Benefit Marketing Data Processing Consulting 92

CIO Business Intelligence

JULY 6, 2023

Spreading the news Telecom provider AT&T began trialing RPA in 2015 to decrease the number of repetitive tasks, such as order entry, for its service delivery group. Scaling automation shifts from tactical one-off efforts to a strategy to improve one or more business processes,” she says. Pilot to accelerate results.

Cost-Benefit 118

Cost-Benefit Technology Unstructured Data Testing 118

CIO Business Intelligence

APRIL 12, 2022

Even though Nvidia’s $40 billion bid to shake up enterprise computing by acquiring chip designer ARM has fallen apart, the merger and acquisition (M&A) boom of 2021 looks set to continue in 2022, perhaps matching the peaks of 2015, according to a report from risk management advisor Willis Towers Watson. Tableau buys Narrative Science.

Enterprise 143

Enterprise Technology Consulting Software 143

Occam's Razor

FEBRUARY 9, 2015

When you are done reading the post, you'll be super mad that your marketing strategy is not more influenced by your competitor's data! Social Strategy Effectiveness. Their listening posts simply can't accommodate for the low signal in all the noise, no matter how many of the eight CI data collection strategies they use.

Metrics 155

Metrics Reporting IT Advertising 155

Ontotext

FEBRUARY 2, 2021

Attempts to manipulate share prices by using social media to spread false or misleading information about stocks lead to the SEC’s Investor Alert of 2015, warning institutional investors about the possible impact of social media. This is a contradictory tactic that might be considered a legitimate investment strategy or market manipulation.

Marketing 59

Marketing Measurement Cost-Benefit Risk 59

Occam's Razor

OCTOBER 12, 2017

When you go to the interview, the hiring company will proceed to ask questions that test your competency in the listed job requirements. Test for analytics experience AND explore the level of analytical thinking the job candidate possesses. Superintelligence: Paths, Dangers, Strategies by Nick Bostrom. This is normal.

Marketing 136

Marketing Analytics Machine Learning Strategy 136

O'Reilly on Data

JUNE 16, 2020

We know, statistically, that doubling down on an 11 is a good (and common) strategy in blackjack. However, as with blackjack, if we are to evaluate decision making by looking at outcomes, it is more productive to look at the long run frequencies of good and bad outcomes to evaluate both the decision and the strategy that led to the decision.

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Uncertainty Testing Risk Reporting 275