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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 bring the tech and cyber expertise to those boards, and also the digital piece,” adds Martin, a member of the CIO Hall of Fame since 2017. “It

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Climate change predictions: Anticipating and adapting to a warming world

IBM Big Data Hub

The model could potentially be used to identify conditions that raise the risks of wildfires and predict hurricanes and droughts. The United Nations’ Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) predicts people living in Africa, Australia, North America and Europe will face health risks due to rising temperatures and heat waves.

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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. Risk and Robustness Our estimates $widehat{beta}$ of the "true'' coefficients $beta$ of our model (1) depend on the random data we observe in experiments, and they are therefore random or uncertain. It is a big picture approach, worthy of your consideration.

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The trinity of errors in financial models: An introductory analysis using TensorFlow Probability

O'Reilly on Data

All models, therefore, need to quantify the uncertainty inherent in their predictions. Yet, finance textbooks, programs, and professionals continue to use the normal distribution in their asset valuation and risk models because of its simplicity and analytical tractability. Let’s consider a specific example of interest rates.

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A Year After: Has Blockchain Changed Advertising by 2022?

Smart Data Collective

In 2019, this environment evolved, multiplying the number of blockchain marketing startups from 22 (2017) to 290 (2019) , which is more than 13 times in a year. In the absence of regulation, many blockchain pilot projects were at risk of ending up absolutely impractical. What about challenges?

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5 Things CFOs of Multinational Companies Need to Know About the OECD Transfer Pricing Guidelines

Jet Global

Although the most recent updates to the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) guidelines took place in 2017, some CFOs of multinational companies still don’t fully understand the implications of those changes, and how the changes affect transfer pricing at their companies.

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Operational Finance in the Age of Covid-19: Time to Change the Basics?

Jet Global

It also decreases the risk of errors by eliminating disjointed, manual processes. A 2017 study by FSN found that businesses which made better use of non-financial data were more than twice as likely to be able to forecast beyond the 12-month time horizon than those that didn’t. Tip 2: Improving accounts receivable procedures.

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