Forecasting uncertainty at Airbnb
O'Reilly on Data
MARCH 28, 2019
Theresa Johnson outlines the AI powering Airbnb’s metrics forecasting platform. Continue reading Forecasting uncertainty at Airbnb.
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O'Reilly on Data
MARCH 28, 2019
Theresa Johnson outlines the AI powering Airbnb’s metrics forecasting platform. Continue reading Forecasting uncertainty at Airbnb.
Dataiku
JULY 6, 2022
Which metrics should be reported? In this article, we relate our experience in building an evaluation framework for Uncertainty Quantification (UQ) in ML. How can we ensure enough diversity in the selected datasets? Which baselines should be included for fair comparison?
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Jet Global
MAY 15, 2020
Tracking real estate industry metrics is crucial to your organization’s success. With current market uncertainty, it’s important to understand and track the benchmarks that drive your firm—industry trends, regulatory changes, new accounting standards, cost and profitability, as well as guidance on cash flows. Ready to learn more?
CIO Business Intelligence
JANUARY 6, 2023
The economists lament, “ A thick fog of uncertainty still surrounds us.” Uncertainty is our jam.” minutes of downtime per year), and expanding digital capabilities in a world characterized by massive economic, political, social, and technological uncertainty. After all, uncertainty is the one certainty.
O'Reilly on Data
JUNE 15, 2023
If we want prosocial outcomes, we need to design and report on the metrics that explicitly aim for those outcomes and measure the extent to which they have been achieved. There is no simple way to solve the alignment problem. But alignment will be impossible without robust institutions for disclosure and auditing.
Occam's Razor
APRIL 8, 2013
To win in business you need to follow this process: Metrics > Hypothesis > Experiment > Act. We are far too enamored with data collection and reporting the standard metrics we love because others love them because someone else said they were nice so many years ago. That metric is tied to a KPI.
CIO Business Intelligence
SEPTEMBER 15, 2023
Salesforce sees boomerang hires as a new success metric, the top executives said, adding that there still might be strategic layoffs in the future. The top executives said that some of the new positions are more likely to be filled by what the company terms as “boomerang” hires.
CIO Business Intelligence
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They are afraid of failure and the uncertainty of knowledge work, and so that’s stressful. Agile is an amazing risk management tool for managing uncertainty, but that’s not always obvious.” The key is recognizing that planning must be an agile discipline, not a standalone activity performed independently of agile teams.
O'Reilly on Data
MARCH 27, 2019
Forecasting uncertainty at Airbnb. Theresa Johnson outlines the AI powering Airbnb’s metrics forecasting platform. Watch " Forecasting uncertainty at Airbnb.". Watch " Winners of the Strata Data Awards 2019.". It’s in the game: A rare look into how EA brought data science into the creative process of game design.
O'Reilly on Data
MARCH 31, 2020
Machine learning adds uncertainty. Underneath this uncertainty lies further uncertainty in the development process itself. There are strategies for dealing with all of this uncertainty–starting with the proverb from the early days of Agile: “ do the simplest thing that could possibly work.”
Cloudera
DECEMBER 3, 2021
Systems should be designed with bias, causality and uncertainty in mind. Uncertainty is a measure of our confidence in the predictions made by a system. We need to understand and provide the greatest human oversight on systems with the greatest levels of uncertainty. System Design. Human Judgement & Oversight. Model Drift.
CIO Business Intelligence
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In economic uncertainty, it’s natural for executives to explore where to reduce spending, trim the fat , so to speak, and cut enterprising investments as a matter of caution. But this thinking is also counter-productive for all the reasons that make uncertainty so predictable. There’s much to be done.
Rocket-Powered Data Science
JULY 19, 2023
For example, an exploration of historical data may reveal that an increase in customer satisfaction (or dissatisfaction) with one particular product is correlated with some other satisfaction (or dissatisfaction) metric downstream at a later date.
Jet Global
MARCH 27, 2020
Now that every industry is facing a prolonged period of uncertainty, having access to accurate, up-to-date information is more critical than ever. With so much uncertainty on the horizon, everyone in the construction industry needs to be at the top of their game , especially in terms of finance and accounting. Bonding Capacity.
Smart Data Collective
AUGUST 18, 2021
Although widely used, keyword scanning software alone simply doesn’t generate sufficient success metrics when sifting through candidate resumes. Even though you may hit it off with a candidate in an interview and be impressed with their resume, that doesn’t necessarily mean they’re the right fit for your business. Retaining staff.
Jet Global
SEPTEMBER 28, 2020
COVID-19 introduces another level of uncertainty. Therefore, decision-makers need to track this metric constantly (ideally in real time) rather than getting weekly, daily, or even hourly updates. Lenders use this metric to inform financing decisions, which many utilities will need in the coming years to cover new construction costs.
The Unofficial Google Data Science Blog
DECEMBER 14, 2021
by AMIR NAJMI & MUKUND SUNDARARAJAN Data science is about decision making under uncertainty. Some of that uncertainty is the result of statistical inference, i.e., using a finite sample of observations for estimation. But there are other kinds of uncertainty, at least as important, that are not statistical in nature.
CIO Business Intelligence
NOVEMBER 15, 2022
Resilient cybersecurity Despite the clamour for new digital investments, Gartner’s analysts did recognise that this would represent a new cybersecurity risk, with some attributing the increased spending in security over the next year down to ongoing uncertainty regarding Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.
CIO Business Intelligence
APRIL 27, 2023
At this time of dynamic business and market changes, uncertainty, and quickly evolving consumption models for IT infrastructure, every IT executive understands the benefits and necessity of network agility. Agile networks can respond quickly to changes in the market, customer demands, employee requirements, and technology advances.
Smart Data Collective
JULY 1, 2023
Consistency and agreement Establish an agreement metric (e.g., Address their questions and clarify any uncertainties promptly. Establish metrics for review Create specific metrics for measuring annotation quality and use them to evaluate both individual annotators and the overall annotation process.
Jet Global
DECEMBER 3, 2019
PeopleSoft data automatically upload into dozens of pre-built templates designed to track the most important metrics and processes related to enterprise performance. The reports themselves even have drill-down capabilities that show users the data behind each metric. Taking Full Advantage of Better Data.
CIO Business Intelligence
SEPTEMBER 22, 2022
And they introduced this idea, the VUCA world: Volatile, Uncertainty, Complex, and Ambiguous. So while vision will be disproportionately rewarded, uncertainty yields to understanding, complexity yields to clarity, and ambiguity yields to agility. On metrics: It’s been said a lot that data is the new oil.
DataKitchen
OCTOBER 2, 2023
A Data Journey supplies real-time statuses and alerts on start times, processing durations, test results, and infrastructure events, among other metrics. Data Journeys track and monitor all levels of the data stack, from data to tools to code to tests across all critical dimensions.
CIO Business Intelligence
MARCH 23, 2023
As the world continues to experience economic uncertainty, IT leaders look to tighten budgets, consolidate tools and resources, and generally become more risk-averse when evaluating new investments. Consider your company scorecard: Your procurement team has a scorecard with clear metrics to evaluate purchase decisions. to just 2.2%
CIO Business Intelligence
JUNE 2, 2022
Businesses today have faced greater levels of uncertainty than ever before. Time saved is an important metric for any DevOps administrator. By Milan Shetti, CEO Rocket Software. Ease of implementation and use.
Jedox
DECEMBER 17, 2020
As businesses around the world look to move past the uncertainty and unprecedented change of 2020 and toward a fresh start in 2021, the discussion around FP&A maturity has been renewed. A: Rather than just a set of specific metrics, it is often more about how they organize themselves.
Andrew White
DECEMBER 16, 2019
See Data and Analytics Strategies Need More-Concrete Metrics of Success. The article notes this as cognitive uncertainty. But it happens to relate closely to our analysis of business metrics and ROI being used to justify investment and report success. As such an ROI would have been impossible. It’s called ROAR.
Jet Global
JUNE 23, 2020
As companies grapple with economic shutdowns, plummeting revenues, market instability, and economic uncertainty now and into the foreseeable future, they need financial insights more than ever before. Every accounting department handles financial reporting differently depending on its metrics, strategy, or audience.
Jet Global
OCTOBER 8, 2020
And it’s possible to become lost in the minutiae of the many different metrics available to measure an organisation’s AR capabilities. Analysing the necessary data is a massive undertaking, and one that can draw finance professionals away from other tasks.
Alation
OCTOBER 26, 2021
The glossary includes the definition of the metric and can point to the specific table containing the formula from which it is calculated. Data governance: Alation allows finance teams to easily identify business metric owners and connect these experts to the underlying data they know best, which supports better governance.
Jet Global
MAY 11, 2021
In terms of the key metrics finance teams are monitoring to signal a broader financial recovery, respondents named sales and revenue (35%), operating cash flow (29%) and net profit margin (27%) as the top three. COVID-19 Response & Economic Recovery Indicators.
Jet Global
NOVEMBER 15, 2019
Members of the finance or IT teams have to go hunting through multiple data sources, identifying and integrating the metrics they need to build reports. Users can drill down into the facts and figures that make up key metrics to understand the forces having the biggest impact on enterprise performance. Download Now. How accessible?
Smart Data Collective
AUGUST 19, 2021
Several metrics exist to help you figure this out. Analytics opens up a whole new world for you and takes the uncertainty off identifying your target audience. Analytics can also help you collate key metrics such as click-through rates, returning customers on the site, time spent on pages, etc. What are their patterns?
Jet Global
APRIL 27, 2020
Frequent updates based on real-time data provide an up-to-the-minute view of key metrics. Clear visibility to key metrics keeps the team focused and encourages clear, concise daily communication. Cash is still king, so if liquidity could be a challenge for your business, make it one of your key metrics.
Sisense
MARCH 26, 2020
Now is the time to apply the full force of business intelligence used by analytics teams to help navigate growing uncertainty. Now is the time to apply the full force of business intelligence used by analytics teams to help navigate growing uncertainty.” Evan Castle, Sisense Head of BI & Analytics Products.
Jet Global
MAY 5, 2020
Since the onset of the coronavirus crisis, businesses around the world are facing an unprecedented level of uncertainty. Most companies monitor some common metrics to make sure they are on track to maintain a sustainable level of cash into the foreseeable future. This is true of other metrics as well.
Jet Global
JUNE 25, 2020
The business oracles at Gartner recently released a list of nine traits necessary for CFOs to preserve performance throughout periods of crisis and uncertainty. As CFOs work to manage cash flow, perfect accounts receivable, or secure loans and stimulus funding, they need access to reports and metrics that reflect the latest data available.
CIO Business Intelligence
JULY 7, 2023
It covers challenges around volatility, uncertainty, complexity, and ambiguity (VUCA) and how to conduct a full cost benefit analysis to identify potential risks and opportunities. ITIL 4 Specialist: IT Asset Management – learn here how to define IT asset management roles, responsibilities, knowledge, and skills.
CIO Business Intelligence
MARCH 9, 2023
In an IT marketplace marked by turbulence, inflation, and economic uncertainty, the process of contracting with vendors for technology products and services has gotten significantly more challenging for CIOs. Pricing models and metrics can also be complex, making it difficult to understand when additional costs might kick in, Alexander says.
CIO Business Intelligence
MAY 4, 2022
He says organizations are looking to automate, streamline operations, and reduce costs to help deal with an unsettled labor market, worker shortages, inflation, and geopolitical uncertainty. Those tech investments in turn enable them to redeploy their scarce (and increasingly more costly) workers to higher-value tasks.
bridgei2i
JULY 8, 2020
This is probably the first time ever that we are witnessing a demand, a supply, and also a resource uncertainty. Effectiveness, which is, how can any form of digital information help us drive business metrics. Vignesh: Ganesh, you really highlighted some very important themes. These are strange times. And all at the same time.
Timo Elliott
AUGUST 27, 2020
Unfortunately, it’s all too easy to forget dreaming when facing extreme stress from uncertainty and constant disruption. This technology allows decision-makers to perform continuous scenario planning to detect new market patterns and drill into evolving drivers behind key metrics. Making the right trade-offs to find an edge.
Jet Global
JUNE 22, 2022
Using analytics to build out dashboards across different companies allowed us to have a standardized metric like price per pound. Analytics helps with that uncertainty because you really are paving the way. RM: And that’s really important for an industry that’s more of an uncharted territory like yours. What’s next for you Jenna?
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