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Decision-Making in a Time of Crisis

O'Reilly on Data

But when making a decision under uncertainty about the future, two things dictate the outcome: (1) the quality of the decision and (2) chance. This essay is about how to take a more principled approach to making decisions under uncertainty and aims to provide certain conceptual and cognitive tools for how to do so, not what decisions to make.

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Paul Martin: CIOs don’t retire, they go work on boards

CIO Business Intelligence

Two years of pandemic uncertainty and escalating business risk have sharpened the focus of corporate boards on a technology trend once dismissed as just another IT buzzword. I joined Baxter as CIO in 2011, and in 2016 I was presented with the opportunity to join my first public company board. How did that opportunity come about?

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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. There is also uncertainty related to our modeling choices — did we select the correct polynomial embedding function $f(x)$, or is the true relationship better described by a different polynomial embedding?

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Global Banking & Finance Review: What Story Does the Office of the CFO Need to Tell Now?

Jet Global

But without establishing a centralised rapid reporting rhythm, fed by real-time data and supported by automated reporting processes, finance runs the risk of things dropping off into silos. And that’s the last thing you want during in periods of uncertainty where things are changing on a daily basis.

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Misleading Statistics Examples – Discover The Potential For Misuse of Statistics & Data In The Digital Age

datapine

With the rise of advanced technology and globalized operations, statistical analyses grant businesses an insight into solving the extreme uncertainties of the market. Chaffetz’s numbers via a comparison with Planned Parenthood’s own annual reports. You can see a graph that shows the UK National debt from 1995 to 2016.

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Analytics in Emerging Industries: Why ‘Building’ was the Wrong Move for a Cannabis Startup

Jet Global

Jenna Greenfield: During some time off, I realized I was very passionate about the cannabis industry and wanted to get involved once it was legalized in California in 2016. Analytics helps with that uncertainty because you really are paving the way. RM: So, you chose to build the analytics for your platform. What’s next for you Jenna?

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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) is unchanged from Strata NY 2018, it’s up three places from Strata NY 2017—and eight places relative to 2016.

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