AWS Big Data

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

At GoDaddy, we embarked on a journey to uncover the efficiency promises of AWS Graviton2 on Amazon EMR Serverless as part of our long-term vision for cost-effective intelligent computing. EMR Serverless on Graviton2 demonstrated an advantage in cost-effectiveness, resulting in significant savings in total run costs.

Cost-Benefit 91

Cost-Benefit Big Data Testing Optimization 91

CIO Business Intelligence

JUNE 28, 2023

As Belcorp considered the difficulties it faced, the R&D division noted it could significantly expedite time-to-market and increase productivity in its product development process if it could shorten the timeframes of the experimental and testing phases in the R&D labs. This allowed us to derive insights more easily.”

Digital Transformation 79

Digital Transformation Cost-Benefit Informatics Data mining 79

Occam's Razor

MAY 22, 2006

This post is a primer on the delightful world of testing and experimentation (A/B, Multivariate, and a new term from me: Experience Testing). Experimentation and testing help us figure out we are wrong, quickly and repeatedly and if you think about it that is a great thing for our customers, and for our employers.

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Smart Data Collective

OCTOBER 13, 2021

AI technology moves innovation forward by boosting tinkering and experimentation, accelerating the innovation process. It also allows companies to experiment with new concepts and ideas in different ways without relying only on lab tests. One of the biggest benefits of AI is that it has led to new breakthroughs in automation.

Technology 121

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CIO Business Intelligence

APRIL 2, 2024

Over the past decade, CIOs have invested significantly in digital transformation initiatives in an effort to improve customer experiences, build data analytics capabilities, and deliver productivity enhancements with automation. While the CIO sees the big picture, their peers need to know how the change will benefit them.”

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IBM Big Data Hub

NOVEMBER 3, 2023

Moreover, costs are always an important consideration: businesses can’t afford to invest in every possible opportunity without evidence of added value. This is why it’s important to empower more business professionals to benefit from events. We’ve seen them get stuck all-together due to costs and skills constrains.

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CIO Business Intelligence

JUNE 1, 2023

They may also be eager to quickly ditch new technologies that don’t provide significant benefits. A transformation in marketing Other research backs up the premise that GAI is having a transformative effect on the role of marketers, who are becoming bolder and more experimental with their martech stacks.

Marketing 87

Marketing B2B Experimentation Cost-Benefit 87

Domino Data Lab

OCTOBER 14, 2020

Guest post by Jeff Melching, Distinguished Engineer / Chief Architect Data & Analytics. Experimentation and collaboration are built into the core of the platform. This ability enhances the efficiency of operational management and optimizes the cost of experimentation. Domino shines in reproducibility and discovery.

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Cloudera

MARCH 2, 2022

Apache Impala is used today by over 1,000 customers to power their analytics in on premise as well as cloud-based deployments. Large user communities of analysts and developers benefit from Impala’s fast query execution, helping them get their work done more effectively. Analytical SQL workloads use aggregates and joins heavily.

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Data Warehouse Optimization Analytics Sales 88

IBM Big Data Hub

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

But what most people don’t realize is that behind the scenes, Uber is not just a transportation service; it’s a data and analytics powerhouse. This blog takes you on a journey into the world of Uber’s analytics and the critical role that Presto, the open source SQL query engine, plays in driving their success.

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CIO Business Intelligence

APRIL 18, 2022

Organizations that continued full speed ahead with their digital transformation initiatives during the COVID-19 pandemic are able to ruminate on what went right and what they would have done differently, with the benefit of hindsight. Rich Nanda, US strategy and analytics offerings leader, Deloitte Consulting. Deloitte Consulting. “In

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Digital Transformation Dashboards Cost-Benefit Consulting 145

DataRobot Blog

MARCH 7, 2023

DataRobot on Azure accelerates the machine learning lifecycle with advanced capabilities for rapid experimentation across new data sources and multiple problem types. DataRobot is available on Azure as an AI Platform Single-Tenant SaaS, eliminating the time and cost of an on-premises implementation.

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Data-driven Machine Learning Experimentation Data Lake 59

Smarten

NOVEMBER 3, 2017

The world of business analytics has changed dramatically in the past few years. If your business is looking to upgrade BI tools or to begin implementing an analytics solution, the solution must be user friendly for business users. The benefit of auto-suggestion and auto-recommendation is easy to understand.

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Alation

SEPTEMBER 28, 2022

The term has been used a lot more of late, especially in the data analytics industry, as we’ve seen it expand over the past few years to keep pace with new regulations, like the GDPR and CCPA. Automated testing to ensure data quality. What exactly is DataOps ? What Is DataOps? Easy-to-experiment data development environment.

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CIO Business Intelligence

FEBRUARY 3, 2023

He says that IT remains largely in-house across helpdesk, data analytics, cybersecurity and development, bar small pockets of outsourced capability for software development and testing, and suggests that business growth hasn’t been the only challenge—not least in the days after Queen Elizabeth II’s death last September.

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IBM Big Data Hub

APRIL 18, 2024

While leaders have some reservations about the benefits of current AI, organizations are actively investing in gen AI deployment, significantly increasing budgets, expanding use cases, and transitioning projects from experimentation to production. 46% of survey respondents in 2024 showed a preference for open source models.

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Cost-Benefit Modeling Manufacturing Interactive 91

Domino Data Lab

AUGUST 6, 2021

With a framework and Enterprise MLOps, organizations can manage data science at scale and realize the benefits of Model Risk Management that are received by a wide range of industry verticals. Outputs for a new problem might not be consistent with the model’s original intent for a different problem without careful research and testing.

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AWS Big Data

JANUARY 9, 2024

However, not all customers who have the opportunity to benefit from k-NN have adopted it, due to the significant engineering effort and resources required to do so. This functionality was initially released as experimental in OpenSearch Service version 2.4, and is now generally available with version 2.9.

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Occam's Razor

SEPTEMBER 15, 2014

Remember, when someone says mobile analytics, first ask the clarifying question: Do you mean mobile application or mobile website ? Then approach each separately (even though there are tools like Google Analytics that will do both). Media-Mix Modeling/Experimentation. It will save you hours and hours of time, effort and focus.

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Occam's Razor

AUGUST 23, 2010

Every believer in Web Analytics 2.0 What comes from Google Analytics, Adobe Site Catalyst, WebTrends, CoreInsight / NetMetrics and more. Why comes from lab usability studies , website surveys , "follow me home" exercises, experimentation & testing , and other such delightful endeavors. Get everyone involved!

Analytics 116

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Cloudera

JANUARY 30, 2019

Data scientists require on-demand access to data, powerful processing infrastructure, and multiple tools and libraries for development and experimentation. Run experiments with historical reference for hyperparameter tuning, feature engineering, grid searches, A/B testing and more. Sound familiar? What is CDSW? Register Now.

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Data Science Machine Learning Experimentation Cost-Benefit 74

datapine

FEBRUARY 4, 2020

We will go into detail with each report below in the article, but it is important to keep in mind that low-level metrics such as CPC or CTR will not take part in the strategic report that focuses on customers’ costs. This is useful since seniors need to know and control customer costs and the quality of leads. click to enlarge**.

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CIO Business Intelligence

APRIL 5, 2023

Midjourney, ChatGPT, Bing AI Chat, and other AI tools that make generative AI accessible have unleashed a flood of ideas, experimentation and creativity. Testing is another area that tends to get neglected, so automated unit test generation will help you get much broader test coverage.

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Modeling Testing Cost-Benefit Experimentation 88

The Unofficial Google Data Science Blog

OCTOBER 12, 2017

This post describes the analytical issues which arise in such a setting, and what the data scientist can do about them. Yet when we use these tools to explore data and look for anomalies or interesting features, we are implicitly formulating and testing hypotheses after we have observed the outcomes. We ought not dredge our data.

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Occam's Razor

SEPTEMBER 19, 2011

Then they isolated regions of the country (by city, zip, state, dma pick your fave) into test and control regions. People in the test regions will participate in our hypothesis testing. We'll measure Revenue, Profit (the money we make less cost of goods sold), Expense (cost of campaign), Net (bottom-line impact).

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DataRobot Blog

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

The cost of real estate has been a rollercoaster ride in this challenging macroeconomic climate. AI catalog encourages a culture of collaboration and sharing data assets that will benefit your organization, leading to big gains in productivity, sharing new sources, and creating a collaborative environment for enterprise AI.

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Modeling Machine Learning Cost-Benefit Metrics 52

Domino Data Lab

JUNE 23, 2019

Skomoroch proposes that managing ML projects are challenging for organizations because shipping ML projects requires an experimental culture that fundamentally changes how many companies approach building and shipping software. Companies that succeed at machine learning tend to build on those existing analytics use cases. Transcript.

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Perceptual Edge

AUGUST 26, 2019

These two fields overlap in many ways because they both visualize information, but they also significantly differ, and the differences cannot be ignored, certainly not when exploring the potential benefits of VR. When considering the potential benefits of VR for data visualization, skepticism is healthy. Her case is hollow.

Visualization 52

Visualization Cost-Benefit Interactive Experimentation 52

Smarten

JULY 3, 2017

For others, the image may be of an organization run amuck with business users leveraging sophisticated advanced analytics tools to create and share data that may be misinterpreted or distributed improperly. Advanced Data Discovery allows business users to perform early prototyping and to test hypothesis without the skills of a data scientist.

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Predictive Modeling Visualization Business Intelligence Experimentation 40

Occam's Razor

JULY 6, 2016

Additionally, you are spending your day in the warm embrace of Adobe or Google Analytics because your job is set up as "data people." Lab usability testing and online surveys both provide great strategies to obsess about user centric design. Testing Kills/Delays Good Ideas. For a jacket that costs $199 list.

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Testing Marketing Experimentation Cost-Benefit 86

Occam's Razor

AUGUST 12, 2013

There are few things more complicated in analytics (all analytics, big data and huge data!) I normally ask people to look at the Path Length report in the Multi-Channel Funnels standard report in Google Analytics (or equivalent tool if you are using SiteCatalyst or WebTrends or other web analytics tools). It is sweet.

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Modeling Optimization Marketing Interactive 161

Occam's Razor

JUNE 4, 2018

Bonus: The best computation of conversion rate is orders divided by users (the default in your analytics tool is sessions). Go to the Multi-Channel Funnels folder in Google analytics and look at two other yummy reports: Time Lag and Path Length. Such is the case with A/B testing. This will bring your conversion rate up (yea!!).

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Strategy Cost-Benefit Testing Sales 124

Occam's Razor

NOVEMBER 2, 2015

The benefits are numerous. Higher Order Bits: Human vs. Business, Success KPIs, S-T-D-C Framework, MoR Test. Economic Value (EcV) is the value of short and long-term revenue and cost savings. It is pronounced the more test. It is an acronym for a test I often use in my consulting engagements. The opportunity cost.

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B2B Metrics Testing Recreation/Entertainment 167

Occam's Razor

JULY 18, 2011

A secondary thing would be to ensure, or your mom will really be mad, that *every* link in your email is tagged with campaign tracking parameters your web analytics solution needs (without this you can’t do the B and O analysis). Most good email providers will do this automatically for whatever web analytics tool you use.

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Metrics Marketing Measurement Cost-Benefit 137

Domino Data Lab

JULY 2, 2019

Clearly, SQL helps reduce cognitive load for those who are learning about data management and analytics. The query graph gets used for optimizing the generated application code in terms of parallelization, compute time costs, memory resources, etc. The benefits of this approach (lower cognitive load, etc.) SQL and Spark.

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Metadata Machine Learning Data Science Data-driven 105

Occam's Razor

AUGUST 13, 2012

A couple weeks back I'd requested the nice folks following me on Google+ and Facebook to submit their most important digital marketing and analytics questions. Some tools do pan-session analysis better than others, and there are a number of relatively new analytics solutions on the market today.

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Modeling Metrics Data Quality Data-driven 124

Occam's Razor

OCTOBER 23, 2006

0 Ownership of web analytics: Business. ‡ Never start with clickstream, it becomes “old” quickly ‡ People care about their paychecks ‡ Execution strategy: ~ Identify Senior Management hot buttons ~ Exhibit daily that you can • increase revenue • trim costs • improve customer satisfaction.

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