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Cyber Fraud Statistics & Preventions to Prevent Data Breaches in 2021

Smart Data Collective

In this blog post, we discuss the key statistics and prevention measures that can help you better protect your business in 2021. Cyber fraud statistics and preventions that every internet business needs to know to prevent data breaches in 2021. rose from 38 million in 2016 to over 50 million in 2018. Let’s dive in.

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What is business analytics? Using data to improve business outcomes

CIO Business Intelligence

Business analytics is the practical application of statistical analysis and technologies on business data to identify and anticipate trends and predict business outcomes. Business analytics also involves data mining, statistical analysis, predictive modeling, and the like, but is focused on driving better business decisions.

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Decision-Making in a Time of Crisis

O'Reilly on Data

We know, statistically, that doubling down on an 11 is a good (and common) strategy in blackjack. In the 2018 midterms, for example, they began to make forecasts such as “1 in 5 chance Democrats win control (19.1%); 4 in 5 chance Republicans keep control (80.9%),” which is careful to express the probabilistic nature of the prediction.

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Towards optimal experimentation in online systems

The Unofficial Google Data Science Blog

the weight given to Likes in our video recommendation algorithm) while $Y$ is a vector of outcome measures such as different metrics of user experience (e.g., Taking measurements at parameter settings further from control parameter settings leads to a lower variance estimate of the slope of the line relating the metric to the parameter.

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What is SSDP and Can it Truly Make Analytics Self-Serve?

Smarten

With true self-serve business intelligence and analytics solutions, the average business user can perform data preparation, test theories and hypotheses by prototyping on their own and share clear, objective data with others.

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Humans-in-the-loop forecasting: integrating data science and business planning

The Unofficial Google Data Science Blog

With those stakes and the long forecast horizon, we do not rely on a single statistical model based on historical trends. For example, we may prefer one model to generate a range, but use a second scenario-based model to “stress test” the range. A single model may also not shed light on the uncertainty range we actually face.

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Building a Speaker Recognition Model

Domino Data Lab

The likelihood function measures the goodness of fit of a statistical model to a sample of data for given values of the unknown parameters. Later during verification, an i-Vector extracted from a test utterance (about 15 second long) is compared against the enrolled i-Vector via a cosine similarity score. Model Performance.