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Can developer productivity be measured? Better than you think

CIO Business Intelligence

Measuring developer productivity has long been a Holy Grail of business. In addition, system, team, and individual productivity all need to be measured. This refers to assessing contributions to a team’s backlog. The company changed its operating model to ensure that they focused on what they did best. Talent capability.

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Measuring Validity and Reliability of Human Ratings

The Unofficial Google Data Science Blog

E ven after we account for disagreement, human ratings may not measure exactly what we want to measure. Researchers and practitioners have been using human-labeled data for many years, trying to understand all sorts of abstract concepts that we could not measure otherwise. That’s the focus of this blog post.

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Achieving cloud excellence and efficiency with cloud maturity models

IBM Big Data Hub

Cloud maturity models are a useful tool for addressing these concerns, grounding organizational cloud strategy and proceeding confidently in cloud adoption with a plan. Cloud maturity models (or CMMs) are frameworks for evaluating an organization’s cloud adoption readiness on both a macro and individual service level.

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Proposals for model vulnerability and security

O'Reilly on Data

Apply fair and private models, white-hat and forensic model debugging, and common sense to protect machine learning models from malicious actors. Like many others, I’ve known for some time that machine learning models themselves could pose security risks. This is like a denial-of-service (DOS) attack on your model itself.

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When models are everywhere

O'Reilly on Data

Not all models are created equal, however: they operate on different principles, and impact us as individuals and communities in different ways. To understand the menagerie of models that are fundamentally altering our individual and shared realities, we need to build a typology, a classification of their effects and impacts.

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Dimensional modeling in Amazon Redshift

AWS Big Data

You can structure your data, measure business processes, and get valuable insights quickly can be done by using a dimensional model. Amazon Redshift provides built-in features to accelerate the process of modeling, orchestrating, and reporting from a dimensional model. Declare the grain of your data.

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Measuring Maturity

Peter James Thomas

The author, engaged in measuring maturity – © Jennifer Thomas Photography – view full photo. However, in this initial article, I wanted to to focus on one tool that I have used as part of my Data Strategy engagements; a Data Maturity Model. Here there is an explicit connection to the Data Capability Framework.