CIO Business Intelligence

AUGUST 14, 2023

The collaboration between Huabao and SAP continued as plans for a new foundation to support corporate development and business model transformation gathered speed. Capitalizing on SAP’s in-memory database, the solution is renowned for meeting the exact challenges Huabao hoped to address navigating uncertainty and refining business results.

Key Performance Indicator 98

Key Performance Indicator Sales Manufacturing KPI 98

Rocket-Powered Data Science

JULY 19, 2023

This was not a scientific or statistically robust survey, so the results are not necessarily reliable, but they are interesting and provocative. The ease with which such structured data can be stored, understood, indexed, searched, accessed, and incorporated into business models could explain this high percentage.

Data-driven 188

Data-driven Enterprise Analytics Machine Learning 188

Juice Analytics

APRIL 17, 2020

Here’s snapshot of a recent search: As Harry Stevens, Washington Post reporter (responsible for that amazing “flatten the curve” story ) pointed out in the round table: “ the truth is that a million cases happened weeks before the official count passed that number and so we’re not reporting on reality, but we’re reporting on the numbers. ”

Forecasting 85

Forecasting Snapshot Dashboards Uncertainty 85

IBM Big Data Hub

APRIL 18, 2024

While these large language model (LLM) technologies might seem like it sometimes, it’s important to understand that they are not the thinking machines promised by science fiction. LLMs like ChatGPT are trained on massive amounts of text data, allowing them to recognize patterns and statistical relationships within language.

Cost-Benefit 91

Cost-Benefit Modeling Manufacturing Interactive 91

Perceptual Edge

APRIL 21, 2019

While they might argue that their smooth model illustrates the relationship in a simpler manner, I would argue that it over-simplifies the relationship if they only report the model without also revealing the actual data on which it was based.

Visualization 76

Visualization Statistics Uncertainty Modeling 76

Sisense

OCTOBER 6, 2020

Most commonly, we think of data as numbers that show information such as sales figures, marketing data, payroll totals, financial statistics, and other data that can be counted and measured objectively. All descriptive statistics can be calculated using quantitative data. Digging into quantitative data. This is quantitative data.

Statistics 98

Statistics Unstructured Data Data-driven Visualization 98

The Unofficial Google Data Science Blog

APRIL 23, 2024

If $Y$ at that point is (statistically and practically) significantly better than our current operating point, and that point is deemed acceptable, we update the system parameters to this better value. Crucially, it takes into account the uncertainty inherent in our experiments. And sometimes even if it is not[1].)

Experimentation 52

Experimentation Optimization Uncertainty Metrics 52

The Unofficial Google Data Science Blog

APRIL 17, 2017

Selection and aggregation of forecasts from an ensemble of models to produce a final forecast. Quantification of forecast uncertainty via simulation-based prediction intervals. Calendaring was therefore an explicit feature of models within our framework, and we made considerable investment in maintaining detailed regional calendars.

Forecasting 83

Forecasting Modeling Statistics Uncertainty 83

Domino Data Lab

JULY 22, 2019

how “the business executives who are seeing the value of data science and being model-informed, they are the ones who are doubling down on their bets now, and they’re investing a lot more money.” He was saying this doesn’t belong just in statistics. Key highlights from the session include. Transcript. Tukey did this paper.

Data Science 109

Data Science Machine Learning Data Governance Modeling 109

Occam's Razor

APRIL 8, 2013

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. Another way to find the metric you want to change is to look at your business model. The business model also tells you what the metric should be.

Metrics 156

Metrics KPI Analytics Key Performance Indicator 156

O'Reilly on Data

FEBRUARY 11, 2020

The responses show a surfeit of concerns around data quality and some uncertainty about how best to address those concerns. Executives see the big picture, not only vis-à-vis operations and strategy, but also with respect to problems—and, especially, complaints —in the units that report to them. Figure 6, below, combines two things.

Data Quality 299

Data Quality Metadata Data Governance Publishing 299

The Unofficial Google Data Science Blog

JULY 22, 2020

For example, imagine a fantasy football site is considering displaying advanced player statistics. A ramp-up strategy may mitigate the risk of upsetting the site’s loyal users who perhaps have strong preferences for the current statistics that are shown. One reason to do ramp-up is to mitigate the risk of never before seen arms.

Experimentation 95

Experimentation Statistics Testing Strategy 95

Data Science and Beyond

JANUARY 7, 2019

Bootstrap sampling techniques are very appealing, as they don’t require knowing much about statistics and opaque formulas. Instead, all one needs to do is resample the given data many times, and calculate the desired statistics. Update : ARCH will soon support analysis of samples of uneven sizes following an issue I reported.

Statistics 77

Statistics Uncertainty Testing Modeling 77

Peter James Thomas

AUGUST 12, 2018

Integrity of statistical estimates based on Data. Having spent 18 years working in various parts of the Insurance industry, statistical estimates being part of the standard set of metrics is pretty familiar to me [7]. The thing with statistical estimates is that they are never a single figure but a range. million ± £0.5

Metrics 49

Metrics Statistics Data Quality Measurement 49

The Unofficial Google Data Science Blog

JULY 11, 2017

SCOTT Time series data are everywhere, but time series modeling is a fairly specialized area within statistics and data science. This post describes the bsts software package, which makes it easy to fit some fairly sophisticated time series models with just a few lines of R code. by STEVEN L. Forecasting (e.g.

Forecasting 64

Forecasting Statistics Modeling Software 64

BI-Survey

FEBRUARY 14, 2022

Overnight, the impact of uncertainty, dynamics and complexity on markets could no longer be ignored. Local events in an increasingly interconnected economy and uncertainties such as the climate crisis will continue to create high volatility and even chaos. The COVID-19 pandemic caught most companies unprepared. Think beyond finance.

Forecasting 52

Forecasting Uncertainty Measurement Software 52

BI-Survey

MARCH 16, 2021

Markets and competition today are highly dynamic and complex, and the future is characterized by uncertainty – not least because of COVID-19. This uncertainty is currently at the forefront of everyone‘s minds. 75 percent of companies confirm that predictive models provide good forecasts for them, even in volatile markets.

Forecasting 52

Forecasting Management Uncertainty Predictive Modeling 52

BI-Survey

MARCH 16, 2021

Markets and competition today are highly dynamic and complex, and the future is characterized by uncertainty – not least because of COVID-19. This uncertainty is currently at the forefront of everyone‘s minds. 75 percent of companies confirm that predictive models provide good forecasts for them, even in volatile markets.

Forecasting 52

Forecasting Management Uncertainty Predictive Modeling 52

The Unofficial Google Data Science Blog

MAY 31, 2016

Statistical power is traditionally given in terms of a probability function, but often a more intuitive way of describing power is by stating the expected precision of our estimates. This is a quantity that is easily interpretable and summarizes nicely the statistical power of the experiment.

Advertising 42

Advertising Testing Sales Statistics 42

Insight

FEBRUARY 19, 2020

My goal here is not to improve upon the current prediction algorithms but rather to describe a model I devised, called ReelRisk , that uses random resampling to generate a range of predictions which can then be used as a risk assessment tool to determine early on whether to fund a movie. The solid line shows the y=x line for comparison.

Risk 67

Risk ROI Modeling Metrics 67

The Unofficial Google Data Science Blog

MARCH 13, 2017

Typically, causal inference in data science is framed in probabilistic terms, where there is statistical uncertainty in the outcomes as well as model uncertainty about the true causal mechanism connecting inputs and outputs. We are all familiar with linear and logistic regression models.

IT 68

IT Visualization Modeling Uncertainty 68

datapine

DECEMBER 28, 2021

1) What Is A Misleading Statistic? 2) Are Statistics Reliable? 3) Misleading Statistics Examples In Real Life. 4) How Can Statistics Be Misleading. 5) How To Avoid & Identify The Misuse Of Statistics? If all this is true, what is the problem with statistics? What Is A Misleading Statistic?

Statistics 363

Statistics Advertising Visualization Data mining 363

Jet Global

OCTOBER 18, 2021

Factory shutdowns, shipping bottlenecks, and shortages of raw materials have led to substantial uncertainty for businesses seeking to address the vicissitudes of supply-side availability. Statistical demand forecasting may use complex formulas and algorithms to extrapolate future demand based on past history.

Forecasting 52

Forecasting Recreation/Entertainment Sales Finance 52