CIO Business Intelligence

MARCH 9, 2022

Hiring for US IT roles slowed dramatically in February 2022, according to CompTIA, even as US Bureau of Labor Statistics figures showed non-farm employment growing across the rest of the economy. The market made up for lost time in 2021 with the creation of 213,000 new IT jobs, a record pace that continued through January 2022.

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Smart Data Collective

SEPTEMBER 25, 2019

In one case occurring in June 2018, the University of Texas’s MD Anderson Cancer Center received a $4.3 However, according to a 2018 North American report published by Shred-It, the majority of business leaders believe data breach risks are higher when people work remotely. Time to Take Action.

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Smart Data Collective

APRIL 13, 2021

Stolen data can be sold on the black market or used for extortion like in the case of ransomware. After a marginal increase in 2015, another steep rise happened in 2016 through 2017 before the volume decreased in 2018 and rose in 2019, and dropped again in 2020. They even go after meta data. million (from 35.7 million in 2008).

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Smart Data Collective

DECEMBER 8, 2020

Despite frameworks such as the 2018 GDPR law coming into effect, a recent survey revealed that more than 91% of Americans believe they have lost control over how their personal information is being collected, which is a very telling statistic. What is a VPN, and how does it work?

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datapine

MARCH 16, 2023

We already discuss this topic in our misleading statistics blog post in which we provided an example of a misleading bar chart by KFC. Marketing The first one in our list of bar graphs examples is a critical paid marketing KPI, the cost per click or CPC tracks the amount of money a business spends every time a person clicks on an ad.

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CIO Business Intelligence

NOVEMBER 9, 2022

Business professionals and leaders can leverage these to manipulate data so they can identify market trends and opportunities, for example. They’re not required to have any experience with analytics or background in statistics or other related disciplines. That’s a great place to start.”

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Smart Data Collective

SEPTEMBER 13, 2021

Construction analytics is a new field that was worth just over $5 billion in 2018. Why is the construction analytics market growing at such a fast pace? According to 2019 statistics, the average cost of a construction dispute was close to $19 million, and the length of seeing such a dispute to resolution was nearly 18 months.

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O'Reilly on Data

FEBRUARY 18, 2020

Growth is still strong for such a large topic, but usage slowed in 2018 (+13%) and cooled significantly in 2019, growing by just 7%. But sustained interest in cloud migrations—usage was up almost 10% in 2019, on top of 30% in 2018—gets at another important emerging trend. ML + AI are up, but passions have cooled. Security is surging.

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CIO Business Intelligence

MARCH 8, 2023

But being a woman in professions where statistically women are underrepresented hasn’t been an issue for Wood. “I Caldas moved to Liberty Mutual in 2018, accepted a business segment CIO role to help the Retail Markets division accelerate a widescale transformation effort.

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Smart Data Collective

DECEMBER 18, 2020

Google Analytics software is free to use and helps website owners and marketers alike to measure the traffic arriving from other sites and external sources to their own. The platform is primarily designed to help businesses and site owners to understand how visitors are interacting with their pages. Image: Infosec ).

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Business Over Broadway

MAY 22, 2019

For those of you who are interested, here is Gartner’s latest (2018) hype cycle on emerging technologies. How employees can drive transformation and emerging technology adoption: Both are data-heavy endeavors; We know that statistics/math knowledge is related to data science project success. AI and Marketing (slide): [link].

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Data Science and Beyond

JULY 22, 2018

Two years later, I published a post on my then-favourite definition of data science , as the intersection between software engineering and statistics. This article is a short summary of my understanding of the definition of data science in 2018. It’s not all about machine learning. In a recent article , Hernán et al.

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O'Reilly on Data

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

We suspect that many API services are being offered as loss leaders—that the major providers have intentionally set prices low to buy market share. 47% are using it specifically to generate marketing copy, and 56% are using it for other kinds of copy (internal memos and reports, for example). 85% might be a reasonable estimate.

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Occam's Razor

JULY 24, 2018

To name a few: Digital Marketing & Measurement Model | Analytics Ecosystem | Web Analytics 2.0. In all, the Impact Matrix contains 46 of the most commonly used business metrics – with an emphasis on sales and marketing. You can see the company’s marketing strategy spans television and other offline advertising, including retail.

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Occam's Razor

JUNE 4, 2018

It is 2018—why are there still light gray below-the-fold add to cart buttons? I mean developing and inserting a subtle collection of gentle nudges that can help increase the conversion rate by a statistically significant amount. Still, I’m heartbroken that some the simplest elements of ecommerce stink so much. youarekillingme.

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datapine

NOVEMBER 19, 2019

If you don’t pay attention to new changes or keep up the pace, it’s easy to fall behind the times (and the market) while other companies beat you to the punch. For businesses looking to improve their consumer marketing communications, finding relevant images in real-time is a time-consuming venture. The solution?

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Domino Data Lab

JULY 22, 2019

He was saying this doesn’t belong just in statistics. It involved a lot of work with applied math, some depth in statistics and visualization, and also a lot of communication skills. Now, Google is spending what, 10 figures marketing TensorFlow? The good news is half the total of available market is not even started yet.

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Domino Data Lab

AUGUST 8, 2019

following a breakthrough paper or two, plus changes in market microstructure). 2018 – Global reckoning about data governance, aka “Oops!…We Putting discussions about security aside, the statistics competency required to confront fairness and bias issues for machine learning models in production set quite a high bar.

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Peter James Thomas

AUGUST 12, 2018

Some systems (even in 2018) can still make it harder to capture good data than to ram in bad. It is entirely feasible that some market event occurs this year ( for example the entrance or exit of a competitor, or the launch of a new competitor product) which would render prior year figures a poor guide. million ± £0.5

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O'Reilly on Data

MARCH 20, 2019

Especially in today’s overheated and turnover-prone data “science” market.) DZone (2018). ACM (2018). Such complexity can be problematic for at least two reasons: A dedicated, motivated attacker can, over time, learn more about your overly complex blackbox modeling system than you or your team knows about your own model.

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Alation

JULY 7, 2022

In 2018, American Family Insurance became an Alation customer and I became the product owner for the AmFam catalog program. To answer these questions we need to look at how data roles within the job market have evolved, and how academic programs have changed to meet new workforce demands. Our paths converge.

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The Unofficial Google Data Science Blog

DECEMBER 4, 2019

With those stakes and the long forecast horizon, we do not rely on a single statistical model based on historical trends. Figure 2: Forecast triangulation Integrating customer forecasts with statistical forecasts In strategic forecasting, the proposed forecast may rely partially on forecasts or assumptions not owned by the data scientist.

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IBM Big Data Hub

OCTOBER 16, 2023

Digital sovereignty is presumed to resolve multifaceted problems with respect to individual rights and freedom, political and legal enforceability at a local, regional and national level within a fair competitive market. In addition, certain countries have privacy laws that restrict the disclosure of personal data to third parties.

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Domino Data Lab

OCTOBER 23, 2019

As a result, there has been a recent explosion in individual statistics that try to measure a player’s impact. What drives the valuation of teams more: attendance or the local real estate market? A common way to measure the accuracy of an ML or statistics prediction is to look at the root mean squared error (RMSE).

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Peter James Thomas

OCTOBER 1, 2019

Throughout I use the word “category” to refer to something discrete that is plotted on an axis, for example France, Germany, Italy and The UK, or 2016, 2017, 2018 and 2019. Some authorities describe them as any diagram using a map to display statistical data; I cover this type of general chart in Map Charts below.

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Domino Data Lab

MARCH 3, 2019

After a data science conference, our marketing group wanted to follow-up by surveying 300 attendees from industry. O’Reilly Media published our analysis as free mini-books: The State of Machine Learning Adoption in the Enterprise (Aug 2018). Surveying ABC adoption in enterprise. When life gives you lemons, make limoncello.”

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Domino Data Lab

MAY 8, 2019

2018-06-21). They also require advanced skills in statistics, experimental design, causal inference, and so on – more than most data science teams will have. Use of influence functions goes back to the 1970s in robust statistics. Finale Doshi-Velez, Been Kim (2017-02-28) ; see also the Domino blog article about TCAV.

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Peter James Thomas

APRIL 9, 2019

Despite starting to write this piece on 18 th December 2018, I have somehow sneaked into the second quarter before getting round to completing it. Anyway, 2018 was a record-breaking year for peterjamesthomas.com. Statistics & Data Science. Statistics & Data Science. The 2018 Top Ten by Hits. The Equation.

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datapine

NOVEMBER 27, 2019

The demand for real-time online data analysis tools is increasing and the arrival of the IoT (Internet of Things) is also bringing an uncountable amount of data, which will promote the statistical analysis and management at the top of the priorities list. Airlines use it to decide how many tickets to sell at each price for a flight.

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