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What Are the Most Important Steps to Protect Your Organization’s Data?

Smart Data Collective

Based on figures from Statista , the volume of data breaches increased from 2005 to 2008, then dropped in 2009 and rose again in 2010 until it dropped again in 2011. In 2009 for example, data breaches dropped to 498 million (from 656 million in 2008) but the number of records exposed increased sharply to 222.5 million (from 35.7

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6 Case Studies on The Benefits of Business Intelligence And Analytics

datapine

Everything is being tested, and then the campaigns that succeed get more money put into them, while the others aren’t repeated. This methodology of “test, look at the data, adjust” is at the heart and soul of business intelligence. This company was originally founded in 2009 as a black car-hailing service in San Francisco.

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

Occam's Razor

Sometimes, we escape the clutches of this sub optimal existence and do pick good metrics or engage in simple A/B testing. Testing out a new feature. Identify, hypothesize, test, react. But at the same time, they had to have a real test of an actual feature. You don’t need a beautiful beast to go out and test.

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10 highest-paying IT skills for 2024

CIO Business Intelligence

Average salary: $166,873 SystemVerilog Commonly used in the semiconductor industry, SystemVerilog is a hardware description and verification language used to model, design, test, simulate, and implement electronic systems.

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Understanding Simpson’s Paradox to Avoid Faulty Conclusions

Sisense

A new drug promising to reduce the risk of heart attack was tested with two groups. Continuing the previous example, let’s assume that blood pressure is known to be a cause for heart attack and the goal of the test drug is to reduce blood pressure. It really depends on the circumstances. Combined 13/60 = 21.67% 11/60 = 18.3%.

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Thread Dev Interview 6: @chris.mrbananas.greening

Data Science 101

Another time we were doing “load testing” and everyone in the office was hitting the site and it seemed to be running really slowly. People were certainly using it for running and testing locally. Wow – this was 2009! An iPhone app with a video from 2009! I do remember one visit after the dot com crash.

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Balancing innovation with value, cost, and practicality: The CIO’s guide to future proofing technology investments

CIO Business Intelligence

For example, Netflix’s 2009 $1 million algorithm contest succeeded but the algorithm wasn’t used due to integration issues and business model changes. Before full-scale deployment, test high-priority use cases through proof-of-concept pilots. Having a superior solution doesn’t guarantee business acceptance.