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Measuring Incrementality: Controlled Experiments to the Rescue!

Occam's Razor

This: You understand all the environmental variables currently in play, you carefully choose more than one group of "like type" subjects, you expose them to a different mix of media, measure differences in outcomes, prove / disprove your hypothesis (DO FACEBOOK NOW!!!), Measuring Incrementality: Controlled Experiments to the Rescue!

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Measuring Maturity

Peter James Thomas

The author, engaged in measuring maturity – © Jennifer Thomas Photography – view full photo. In the thirteen years that have passed since the beginning of 2007, I have helped ten organisations to develop commercially-focused Data Strategies [1].

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Unlock the power of optimization in Amazon Redshift Serverless

AWS Big Data

Amazon Redshift Serverless automatically scales compute capacity to match workload demands, measuring this capacity in Redshift Processing Units (RPUs). We encourage you to measure your current price-performance by using sys_query_history to calculate the total elapsed time of your workload and note the start time and end time.

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How CIOs can unite sustainability and technology

CIO Business Intelligence

of CO2 in 2007, the industry has now risen to 4% today and will potentially reach 14% by 2040. . In fact, companies that adopt sustainable technology to a significant extent achieve 4% higher ESG scores from Arabesque S-Ray , a global specialist in measuring ESG metrics. . Producing only 1.5%

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What is ITIL? Your guide to the IT Infrastructure Library

CIO Business Intelligence

Later, the ITIL Refresh Project in 2007 consolidated the ITIL to five volumes consisting of 26 process and functions — this is referred to as the ITIL 2007 edition. The five volumes remained, and ITIL 2007 and ITIL 2011 remained similar. In 2011, another update — dubbed ITIL 2011 — was published under the Cabinet Office.

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The Lean Analytics Cycle: Metrics > Hypothesis > Experiment > Act

Occam's Razor

First, you figure out what you want to improve; then you create an experiment; then you run the experiment; then you measure the results and decide what to do. For each of them, write down the KPI you're measuring, and what that KPI should be for you to consider your efforts a success. Measure and decide what to do.

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BI Data Lineage Solutions: Your Trusted Guide For Success

Octopai

One example is the lineage methods that the banking industry has adopted to comply with regulations put in place following the 2007 financial collapse. A key piece of legislation that emerged from that crisis was BCBS-239. It required banks to develop a data architecture that could support risk-management tools.