September, 2016

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Ask Why! Finding motives, causes, and purpose in data science

Data Science and Beyond

Some people equate predictive modelling with data science, thinking that mastering various machine learning techniques is the key that unlocks the mysteries of the field. However, there is much more to data science than the What and How of predictive modelling. I recently gave a talk where I argued the importance of asking Why , touching on three different topics: stakeholder motives, cause-and-effect relationships, and finding a sense of purpose.

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Plato’s Data

Jim Harris

Plato’s Cave is a famous allegory from philosophy that describes a fictional scenario where people mistake an illusion for reality. The allegory describes a group of people who have lived their whole lives as prisoners chained motionless in a dark cave, forced to face a blank wall. Behind the prisoners is a large fire. In front of the fire are puppeteers that project shadows onto the cave wall, acting out little plays, which include mimicking voices and sound effects that echo off the cave walls

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Update Your Balanced Scorecard With Business Outcome And Agility Metrics

Martha Bennett

We’ve entered the age of the customer, where powerful customers are disrupting every industry. In response, companies will have to change how they develop, market, sell, and deliver products and services directly to their customers and through their partners. CIOs and their teams are crucial to these strategic responses and will have to track transformation […].

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Back to Basics

Nutanix

I was just thinking how young a company we still are. Nutanix was incorporated in Delaware on September 22nd, 2009.

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Beyond the Basics of A/B Tests: Highly Innovative Experimentation Tactics You Need to Know

Speaker: Timothy Chan, PhD., Head of Data Science

Are you ready to move beyond the basics and take a deep dive into the cutting-edge techniques that are reshaping the landscape of experimentation? 🌐 From Sequential Testing to Multi-Armed Bandits, Switchback Experiments to Stratified Sampling, Timothy Chan, Data Science Lead, is here to unravel the mysteries of these powerful methodologies that are revolutionizing how we approach testing.

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Smarter Survey Results and Impact: Abandon the Asker-Puker Model!

Occam's Razor

Today's post comes from a source of deep pain. Analysis Ninjas are valued less than I would prefer for them to be. The post is also sourced from a recent edition of my newsletter, The Marketing – Analytics Intersect. I send it once a week, and it contains my insights and recommendations on those two topics. Like this blog, the newsletter is geared towards being instantly actionable (rather than just theory-smart, which is pretty cool too).

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Health outcomes analytics: Opportunities and gaps

ScienceSoft

Our new infographic sums up on aspects essential for defining, measuring and analyzing patients’ health outcomes.

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On-Demand Deployment for your Databases with Oracle VM and Nutanix Enterprise Cloud

Nutanix

Businesses of all sizes rely on Oracle databases to run applications that power their most essential IT business systems. As a result, IT administrators want to be sure that they have correctly deployed and configured the database.

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File Restoration on Your Terms with Enterprise Cloud Self Service File Restore

Nutanix

Today at the.NEXT On-Tour, we are bringing continuous innovation to the Big Apple, New York City. Simple, integrated backup should be at the core of every Enterprise Cloud strategy.

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Prism on your Terms: Local Language Support

Nutanix

Early in Nutanix’s history, we were faced with a choice to travel one of two paths. The first was to focus on building our business close to Nutanix headquarters and establish ourselves in North America.

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Build Large File Services Repositories on Nutanix’s Largest Capacity Nodes, the NX-6035C-G5

Nutanix

Running AFS on the NX-6035C-G5 storage only nodes can provide another use case for Nutanix customers starting to migrate to the Enterprise Cloud Platform.

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The Path to Product Excellence: Avoiding Common Pitfalls and Enhancing Communication

Speaker: David Bard, Principal at VP Product Coaching

In the fast-paced world of digital innovation, success is often accompanied by a multitude of challenges - like the pitfalls lurking at every turn, threatening to derail the most promising projects. But fret not, this webinar is your key to effective product development! Join us for an enlightening session to empower you to lead your team to greater heights.

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Advanced VM Placement Intelligence: Allows your VMs to Focus on Running Workloads

Nutanix

Keeping data close to the compute has been one of the salient features of the Nutanix architecture and the Distributed Storage Fabric, or DSF.

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Serve Files with Enterprise Cloud Agility, Security, and Availability with Acropolis File Services

Nutanix

We are happy to announce that Acropolis File Services (AFS) is planned to be generally available (GA) in the Asterix software release.

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NTNX: Disrupt. Reinvent. Repeat.

Nutanix

There’s no question that enterprise application usability has for the most part been left behind.

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Piece of Mind for your Workloads with VM-Centric Flash Mode Support

Nutanix

There’s no question that enterprise application usability has for the most part been left behind.

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Peak Performance: Continuous Testing & Evaluation of LLM-Based Applications

Speaker: Aarushi Kansal, AI Leader & Author and Tony Karrer, Founder & CTO at Aggregage

Software leaders who are building applications based on Large Language Models (LLMs) often find it a challenge to achieve reliability. It’s no surprise given the non-deterministic nature of LLMs. To effectively create reliable LLM-based (often with RAG) applications, extensive testing and evaluation processes are crucial. This often ends up involving meticulous adjustments to prompts.

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Piece of Mind for your Workloads with VM-Centric Flash Mode Support

Nutanix

There’s no question that enterprise application usability has for the most part been left behind.

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Introducing Nutanix X-Powered Services

Nutanix

There’s no question that enterprise application usability has for the most part been left behind.

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Nutanix Launches.heart – Our New CSR Program

Nutanix

There’s no question that enterprise application usability has for the most part been left behind.

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Gear Up for the Enterprise Cloud at Ignite

Nutanix

There’s no question that enterprise application usability has for the most part been left behind.

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Entity Resolution Checklist: What to Consider When Evaluating Options

Are you trying to decide which entity resolution capabilities you need? It can be confusing to determine which features are most important for your project. And sometimes key features are overlooked. Get the Entity Resolution Evaluation Checklist to make sure you’ve thought of everything to make your project a success! The list was created by Senzing’s team of leading entity resolution experts, based on their real-world experience.

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Meaningful and Real-Time Insights for your Workloads

Nutanix

There’s no question that enterprise application usability has for the most part been left behind.

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Meaningful and Real-Time Insights for your Workloads

Nutanix

There’s no question that enterprise application usability has for the most part been left behind.

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Comprehensive API Support for your Backup Software

Nutanix

There’s no question that enterprise application usability has for the most part been left behind.