Occam's Razor

JULY 26, 2010

We lovingly craft reports every day. My hope in this post is to share some simple tips with you that might make your reports and analysis speak to you a bit more. Look at your most important work / report / dashboard. We do reports / dashboards like this one all the time: Ok great. And so on and so forth. I need someone.

Metrics 96

Metrics Measurement Dashboards Reporting 96

CIO Business Intelligence

AUGUST 14, 2024

Organizations typically start with the most capable model for their workload, then optimize for speed and cost. The report covered not only the documents and people involved in the proof of concept, but the actions required to safely extend Copilot usage to other parts of the business. Don’t do it straight across the enterprise.

Enterprise 136

Enterprise Cost-Benefit Experimentation Modeling 136

Occam's Razor

FEBRUARY 20, 2012

I'm not an expert in the credit score reporting business. My favorite report is the Credit Report Card. Now you have a fantastic understanding of the business objective (make money via credit reporting) and the Goals (a combination of Macro + Micro Conversions). I don't know anyone at Credit Karma.

IT 139

IT Measurement Marketing Metrics 139

CIO Business Intelligence

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

The early 2010’s practice of co-locating talent supercharged collaboration, but also limited organizations’ ability to scale with a workforce based in high-density, cost-prohibitive metros. Communication should instead be optimized to provide the most time value for teams.

Cost-Benefit 98

Cost-Benefit Measurement Strategy Modeling 98

BizAcuity

FEBRUARY 15, 2019

Sales Analytics began to emerge as the scientific approach to selling in 2010 with sales becoming less about certain methodology or personality and more of a number game. Some businesses in 2003 started using predictive analytics generating an average Return on Investment or ROI of 145% as per the study that was undertaken by IDC.

Sales 67

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Occam's Razor

JANUARY 20, 2010

We will cover measuring success of SEO efforts on one web page, how to do search engine optimization for b2b websites, how to rank for highly saturated industries / categories / keywords, and which competitive intelligence tools do I use for search program optimization (and targeting display ads using search data!).

Metrics 90

Metrics B2B Analytics Measurement 90

Ontotext

JULY 29, 2021

If you’ve used Google, you’ve used the cornucopia of Linked data across the Web, through Google’s Knowledge Graph (Google’s Knowledge Graph is reportedly supported by Freebase – the knowledge acquired by Google in 2010. )

Enterprise 124

Enterprise Metadata Knowledge Discovery Management 124

Occam's Razor

MARCH 23, 2010

My problem with these mistruths and FUD is that they result in a ton of practitioners and companies making profoundly sub optimal choices, which in turn results in not just much longer slogs but also spectacular career implosions and the entire web analytics industry suffering. This is sad. Even a little frustrating. Fail faster. [

Analytics 119

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Mark Raskino

FEBRUARY 25, 2019

We hear about digital efficiency, digital workplace, and digital optimization. By about 2010 or so – digital meant market facing technology, and “IT” meant back office and the internal efficiency use of technology. Our 2019 CEO survey reports will be published to clients in April. Today, everything is “digital”. So far, so good.

IT 49

IT Marketing Technology Interactive 49

The Unofficial Google Data Science Blog

JULY 11, 2017

If both variances are positive then the optimal estimator of $y_{t+1}$ winds up being "exponential smoothing," where past data are forgotten at an exponential rate determined by the ratio of the two variances. The data consist of the weekly initial claims for unemployment insurance in the US, as reported by the US Federal Reserve.

Forecasting 64

Forecasting Statistics Modeling Software 64

Timo Elliott

JANUARY 10, 2022

For example, we’re see all kinds of legislation requiring companies to measure set targets, measure and report their emissions, for example. He also cited the Costco example of using analytics and machine learning to create algorithms to optimize bread production, again using cameras.

Data Processing 122

Data Processing Machine Learning Manufacturing Technology 122

The Unofficial Google Data Science Blog

JULY 22, 2020

For this reason we don’t report uncertainty measures or statistical significance in the results of the simulation. An efficient bandit algorithm for realtime multivariate optimization." We simulate 2,000,000 users who visit during the experiment. Applied Stochastic Models in Business and Industry 31.1 2015): 37-45. [3] ACM, 2017. [4]

Experimentation 95

Experimentation Statistics Testing Knowledge Discovery 95

Occam's Razor

AUGUST 28, 2017

From the ability to speed up discovery of new medicines to the unbelievable speed with which Machine Learning techniques are becoming particularly adept at diagnosis (think blood reports, X-rays, cancers etc.). In orange is a summary of what “Machines” and humans will be optimally suited for in the near-future. An example I love.

Deep Learning 140

Deep Learning Machine Learning Marketing Strategy 140

CIO Business Intelligence

JANUARY 3, 2023

In October, the league, with partner SAP, launched NHL Venue Metrics, a sustainability platform that teams and their venue partners can use for data collection, validation, and reporting and insights. Sustainability is all about innovation and business optimization. Sustainability is all about continuous business improvement.

Metrics 144

Metrics Measurement Recreation/Entertainment Data Collection 144

CIO Business Intelligence

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

Introduce gen AI capabilities without thinking about data hygiene, he warns, and people will be disillusioned when they haven’t done the pre work to get it to perform optimally. The same issues were revealed when Microsoft launched Delve, and before that when the FAST integration brought powerful search to SharePoint in 2010.

IT 143

IT Metadata Data-driven Management 143

datapine

APRIL 16, 2019

By implementing the right reporting tools and understanding how to analyze as well as to measure your data accurately, you will be able to make the kind of data driven decisions that will drive your business forward. Exclusive Bonus Content: How to be data driven in decision making? The proof is in the numbers.

Data-driven 287

Data-driven Dashboards Visualization Cost-Benefit 287

O'Reilly on Data

JANUARY 25, 2021

In this report, we look at the data generated by the O’Reilly online learning platform to discern trends in the technology industry—trends technology leaders need to follow. Look at all the angst heating up social media when TIOBE or RedMonk releases their reports on language rankings. But what are “trends”? What about data science?

Machine Learning 363

Machine Learning Software Testing Technology 363

Smart Data Collective

OCTOBER 16, 2022

One report shows that the number of annual data breaches increased around 60% between 2010 and 2021. Conventional SIEM cannot match this efficiency and optimal use of AI. Data breaches are becoming increasingly common these days. It cannot produce an AI engine with fidelity comparable to what Open XDR can provide.

Data Lake 141

Data Lake Behavioral Analytics Big Data Enterprise 141

The Unofficial Google Data Science Blog

OCTOBER 12, 2017

We need to know whether the decision we are optimizing is significant enough to justify the time and experiment resources spent optimizing it. Selection bias played a notable role in the discussion of the avian influenza outbreak of 2011 during which the reported case fatality rate was as high as 80% [2]. 2] Palese P, Wang TT.

Experimentation 61

Experimentation Testing Statistics Metrics 61

AWS Big Data

OCTOBER 22, 2024

Infor’s Intelligent Open Network (ION) OneView platform provides real-time reporting, dashboards, and data visualization to help customers access and analyze information across their organization. Robust storage and search capabilities are critical components of Infor’s enterprise business cloud software. x and then to 7.x

Optimization 114

Optimization Cost-Benefit Software Strategy 114

Edwin Chen

SEPTEMBER 29, 2011

Inception (2010 movie) 0.535. The Social Network (2010 movie) 0.513. Search Engine Optimization (SEO) 0.398. The Colbert Report 0.376. Caltech likes Star Trek , the Colbert Report , and Futurama. Food & Restaurants in Palo Alto 0.572. Your 20s 0.566. Men’s Fashion 0.548. Flipboard 0.537. Tumblr 0.531.

Finance 81

Finance Interactive Machine Learning Advertising 81

CIO Business Intelligence

APRIL 12, 2022

Even though Nvidia’s $40 billion bid to shake up enterprise computing by acquiring chip designer ARM has fallen apart, the merger and acquisition (M&A) boom of 2021 looks set to continue in 2022, perhaps matching the peaks of 2015, according to a report from risk management advisor Willis Towers Watson.

Technology 143

Technology Enterprise Consulting Software 143