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The mainframe is dying: Long live the mainframe application!

CIO Business Intelligence

Fujitsu remains very much interested in the mainframe market, with a new model still on its roadmap for 2024, and a move under way to “shift its mainframes and UNIX servers to the cloud, gradually enhancing its existing business systems to optimize the experience for its end-users.” years after its launch in June 2006.

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Best Web Metrics / KPIs for a Small, Medium or Large Sized Business

Occam's Razor

A/B & Multivariate tests are a good option. Try, test, measure, be rich. Google Analytics' native funnels are pretty sub optimal, ignore that entire feature.) What key performance indicators are optimal for you? Here's how that picture might look like (from a post I wrote in July 2006!)…

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Analytics On The Bleeding Edge: Transforming Data's Influence

Occam's Razor

The first component is a gloriously scaled global creative pre-testing program. We pre-test pretty much everything in an online lab ish environment, and predict whether a piece of a TV or Billboard or Radio or YouTube or Facebook creative will be successful. Matched market tests. Creative is the thing you see in the ad.

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Towards optimal experimentation in online systems

The Unofficial Google Data Science Blog

If the relationship of $X$ to $Y$ can be approximated as quadratic (or any polynomial), the objective and constraints as linear in $Y$, then there is a way to express the optimization as a quadratically constrained quadratic program (QCQP). However, joint optimization is possible by increasing both $x_1$ and $x_2$ at the same time.

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How Nvidia became a trillion-dollar company

CIO Business Intelligence

Then in 2006 Nvidia introduced a new GPU architecture, CUDA, that could be programmed directly in C to accelerate mathematical processing, simplifying its use in parallel computing. One is building and running the virtual worlds in which self-driving algorithms are tested without putting anyone at risk.

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Excellent Analytics Tip #8: Measure the Real Conversion Rate & "Opportunity Pie"

Occam's Razor

And no that is not Visits or Total Visitors in the denominator, for my perspective on why that is sub-optimal click here and read the part about Why use Unique Visitors.]. The problem is that you are there just to look at the car, maybe take it for a test drive. For exhaustive details click here. You really don’t want to be sold.

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Public cloud vs. private cloud vs. hybrid cloud: What’s the difference?

IBM Big Data Hub

Internet companies like Amazon led the charge with the introduction of Amazon Web Services (AWS) in 2002, which offered businesses cloud-based storage and computing services, and the launch of Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) in 2006, which allowed users to rent virtual computers to run their own applications.