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How OLAP and AI can enable better business

IBM Big Data Hub

Initially, they were designed for handling large volumes of multidimensional data, enabling businesses to perform complex analytical tasks, such as drill-down , roll-up and slice-and-dice. Early OLAP systems were separate, specialized databases with unique data storage structures and query languages.

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You Cannot Get to the Moon on a Bike!

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In Computer Science, we are trained to use the Okham razor – the simplest model of reality that can get the job done is the best one. Limiting growth by (data integration) complexity Most operational IT systems in an enterprise have been developed to serve a single business function and they use the simplest possible model for this.

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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. Under certain conditions, the non-parametric and parametric measurements should be the same , and disagreements between the approaches should help illustrate how our assumptions about the data are correct or not.

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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. First, someone worked really hard on this and created a really nice model for a smarter decision to be made for 2014. Yes, there is more stuff on the slide.