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Misled by metrics: 7 KPI mistakes IT leaders make

CIO Business Intelligence

Mark Twain famously remarked that there are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics. Today, many CIOs feel the same way about metrics. Metrics are only as good as their source. Therefore, CIOs must be cautious about taking metrics at face value [and] leaders need to understand the data behind the metrics.”.

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Enhance monitoring and debugging for AWS Glue jobs using new job observability metrics

AWS Big Data

Today we are pleased to announce a new class of Amazon CloudWatch metrics reported with your pipelines built on top of AWS Glue for Apache Spark jobs. The new metrics provide aggregate and fine-grained insights into the health and operations of your job runs and the data being processed. workerUtilization showed 1.0

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The Ultimate Guide to Modern Data Quality Management (DQM) For An Effective Data Quality Control Driven by The Right Metrics

datapine

6) Data Quality Metrics Examples. Reporting being part of an effective DQM, we will also go through some data quality metrics examples you can use to assess your efforts in the matter. It involves: Reviewing data in detail Comparing and contrasting the data to its own metadata Running statistical models Data quality reports.

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Anomaly detection in machine learning: Finding outliers for optimization of business functions

IBM Big Data Hub

Anomaly detection simply means defining “normal” patterns and metrics—based on business functions and goals—and identifying data points that fall outside of an operation’s normal behavior. Regression modeling is a statistical tool used to find the relationship between labeled data and variable data.

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Can developer productivity be measured? Better than you think

CIO Business Intelligence

The US Bureau of Labor Statistics has projected that the number of software developers will grow 25% from 2021-31. Well-known metrics, such as deployment frequency, are useful when it comes to tracking teams but not individuals. Then we complemented these with the following four “opportunity-focused metrics.”

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Optimizing clinical trial site performance: A focus on three AI capabilities

IBM Big Data Hub

Embracing AI for clinical trials: The elements of success By embracing three AI-enabled capabilities, biopharma companies can significantly optimize clinical trial site selection process while developing core AI competencies that can be scaled out and saving financial resources that can be reinvested or redirected.

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Optymyze CEO Discusses How To Use Data Analytics To Improve Your Business Processes

BA Learnings

This could involve analyzing customer feedback surveys or tracking website usage metrics such as pageviews or time spent on a page. This may require using tools such as Microsoft Excel or Google Sheets for fundamental statistical analysis or more advanced tools such as Tableau for visualizing complex datasets.