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Belcorp reimagines R&D with AI

CIO Business Intelligence

These circumstances have induced uncertainty across our entire business value chain,” says Venkat Gopalan, chief digital, data and technology officer, Belcorp. “As Belcorp operates under a direct sales model in 14 countries. Its brands include ésika, L’Bel, and Cyzone, and its products range from skincare and makeup to fragrances.

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Simulation for better decision making

Cloudera

Over the past decade, we have observed open source powered big data and analytics platforms evolve from large data storage containers to massively scalable advanced modeling platforms that seamlessly operate on-premises and in a multi-cloud environment. Derman (2016), Cesa (2017) & Bouchard (2018)).

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3 key mistakes leaders make today and how to overcome them

CIO Business Intelligence

Mistake 1: undisciplined growth Leaders are facing times of uncertainty, magnified recently with the collapse of Silicon Valley Bank and ongoing market turmoil. They have a paradigm called the “continuous learning machine,” where engineers use AI to automate their repetitive work tasks and build predictive models to help with productivity.

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6 ecommerce trends to watch

IBM Big Data Hub

The ecosystem has become more complex as business models advance and new ecommerce trends appear. In recent years, for instance, ecommerce companies based on a subscription model—like Blue Apron and BarkBox— have grown over 1,000%. The ecommerce market has grown exponentially over the last decade.

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Towards optimal experimentation in online systems

The Unofficial Google Data Science Blog

Crucially, it takes into account the uncertainty inherent in our experiments. Experiments, Parameters and Models At Youtube, the relationships between system parameters and metrics often seem simple — straight-line models sometimes fit our data well. It is a big picture approach, worthy of your consideration.

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Topics to watch at the Strata Data Conference in New York 2019

O'Reilly on Data

So, we used a form of the Term Frequency-Inverse Document Frequency (TF/IDF) technique to identify and rank the top terms in this year’s Strata NY proposal topics—as well as those for 2018, 2017, and 2016. 2 in frequency in proposal topics; a related term, “models,” is No. An ML-related topic, “models,” was No.

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Fitting Bayesian structural time series with the bsts R package

The Unofficial Google Data Science Blog

SCOTT Time series data are everywhere, but time series modeling is a fairly specialized area within statistics and data science. This post describes the bsts software package, which makes it easy to fit some fairly sophisticated time series models with just a few lines of R code. by STEVEN L. Forecasting (e.g.