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Common Business Intelligence Challenges Facing Entrepreneurs

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These benefits include cost efficiency, the optimization of inventory levels, the reduction of information waste, enhanced marketing communications, and better internal communication – among a host of other business-boosting improvements. 7) Dealing with the impact of poor data quality.

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Measuring Validity and Reliability of Human Ratings

The Unofficial Google Data Science Blog

If they roll two dice and apply a label if the dice rolls sum to 12 they will agree 85% of the time, purely by chance. We normally have lots of labelers and items in our dataset, and priors give a form of regularization that better handles cases where data might be sparse and makes the model less prone to overfitting.

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Great Storytelling With Data: Visualize Simply And Focus Obsessively

Occam's Razor

When you are presenting, to an audience of 3 or 3,000, your goal should be to get the data out of the way as fast as you can, so that you can move to the so what conversation. Or, any host of issues? Simplify… let the data be the hero… The legend usually works best at the bottom. Or, the legend is the sub-title.