Occam's Razor

APRIL 8, 2013

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.

Metrics 157

Metrics KPI Analytics Key Performance Indicator 157

Mark Raskino

AUGUST 30, 2017

The President of Iceland Olafur Ragnar Grimsson explained this phenomenon to me when I had the privilege to interview him in 2011 (Gartner Report: G00212784 ). “So He was talking about something we call the ‘compound uncertainty’ that must be navigated when we want to test and introduce a real breakthrough digital business idea.

Testing 53

Testing Experimentation Uncertainty Risk 53

Smart Data Collective

JUNE 6, 2021

This can be done through the analysis of previous product success as well as the data collected from test markets and/or social groups that may dictate what commercial offerings are best received. If your company revolves around the manufacturing of goods or services, for example, big data can aid you in the development of your products.

Big Data 137

Big Data Data Analytics Analytics Cost-Benefit 137

CIO Business Intelligence

JUNE 1, 2023

Here are a few outcomes from HPC’s groundbreaking capabilities: HPC modeling and simulation help engineers test jet engines without destroying a single $10-40 million jet engine. For one company, Cloud for HPC reduced deployment time by 95% in designing and testing new engineering pumps, drill heads, and regulators.

ROI 111

ROI Cost-Benefit Machine Learning Testing 111

Smart Data Collective

APRIL 2, 2019

According to Forbes in 2011, the idea of the Data Lake was already gaining traction as companies started to consider the idea of moving their data from off-site repositories to cloud-accessible online storage , a reality that was further cemented by the cheap availability of cloud storage. The Thrust for Data Lake Creation.

Data Lake 106

Data Lake Big Data OLAP Testing 106

Occam's Razor

NOVEMBER 2, 2015

Higher Order Bits: Human vs. Business, Success KPIs, S-T-D-C Framework, MoR Test. In my Oct 2011 post, Best Social Media Metrics , I'd created four metrics to quantify this value. It is pronounced the more test. It is an acronym for a test I often use in my consulting engagements. It stands for: Money off Roof test.

B2B 167

B2B Metrics Recreation/Entertainment Testing 167

Smart Data Collective

FEBRUARY 14, 2023

Since launching in 2011, Snapchat has primarily been a mobile app that works best with high-end smartphones. You can test the web-based trading app’s features with a demo account and only request a real account when you’re ready to trade with real money.

Risk 136

Risk Technology Optimization Machine Learning 136

Jedox

JUNE 24, 2021

They specialize in technology infrastructure, data and analytics of the go-to-market processes to measure the effectiveness of each channel, the overall performance of the marketing program and the sales organization, and support customer, product and market analysis and A/B testing.

Sales 95

Sales Marketing Optimization Metrics 95

CIO Business Intelligence

JANUARY 8, 2024

But in this next cloud optimization phase, the airliner will focus on enhancing the security and performance of these workloads on the cloud, says Nair, who was hired by Cathay in 2011 as an application service manager, working his way up to his current position 10 years later.

Optimization 119

Optimization Digital Transformation Cost-Benefit Data Warehouse 119

CIO Business Intelligence

APRIL 18, 2025

In April 2011, the passenger system promotion department (PSPD), initially consisting of 10 people, was established under the Route Management Headquarters, where Hitoshi Sugihara, now the head of JALs digital CX planning department, was a member and an instrumental part of the Sakura Project. This is when the Sakura Project began.

Digital Transformation 59

Digital Transformation Data Processing IT Marketing 59

IBM Big Data Hub

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

In 2023, for instance, a power generation equipment manufacturer in France announced it was switching from petroleum diesel to renewable diesel for generator testing, resulting in a significant decrease in greenhouse gas emissions. link resides outside ibm.com), IPCC, 2011. [2] link resides outside ibm.com), IPCC, 2011. [4]”

Manufacturing 72

Manufacturing Reporting Data-driven Technology 72

The Unofficial Google Data Science Blog

OCTOBER 7, 2015

A/B testing is used widely in information technology companies to guide product development and improvements. For questions as disparate as website design and UI, prediction algorithms, or user flows within apps, live traffic tests help developers understand what works well for users and the business, and what doesn’t.

Modeling 63

Modeling Experimentation Knowledge Discovery Testing 63

CIO Business Intelligence

NOVEMBER 7, 2022

The two began working together on a transition away from Lidl’s creaky in-house inventory system since 2011. PG&E: When ‘sample’ data isn’t Some rollouts aim to tackle this sort of problem by testing new systems with production data, generally imported from existing databases. What happened?

Manufacturing 128

Manufacturing Cost-Benefit Sales Consulting 128

IBM Big Data Hub

MARCH 25, 2022

We founded MemSQL (the original name of SingleStore) in 2011. Around 2011, we worked with a hot gaming company with a real-time analytics use case to understand what their users were doing in the moment to optimize the gaming experience by monitoring how users interacted with the game.

Data-driven 69

Data-driven Data Warehouse Data Processing Marketing 69

AWS Big Data

JULY 16, 2024

Zurich has done testing with Amazon SageMaker and has plans to add this capability in the near future. Austin Rappeport is a Computer Engineer who graduated from the University of Illinois Urbana/Champaign in 2011 with a focus in Computer Security.

Insurance 123

Insurance Management Cost-Benefit Optimization 123

Domino Data Lab

SEPTEMBER 25, 2019

For an illustration, we will make use of the World Bank API to download gross domestic product (GDP) for a number of countries from 1960 through 2011. Most of this, such as the statistics on residuals, tests, AIC and BIC are diagnostic measures on the quality of the fit. The next step is to fit the model using ugarchfit.

Forecasting 87

Forecasting Modeling Statistics Optimization 87

Domino Data Lab

AUGUST 6, 2021

It was first defined by the US Federal Reserve and Office of the Comptroller of the Currency ( SR 11-7 ) in April 2011. Outputs for a new problem might not be consistent with the model’s original intent for a different problem without careful research and testing. The genesis of Model Risk Management was in the banking industry.

Risk Management 64

Risk Management Risk Modeling Enterprise 64

The Data Visualisation Catalogue

MARCH 3, 2019

This visualisation was created in 2011 by Hans-Jörg Schulz, Steffen Hadlak and Heidrun Schumann in their paper The Design Space of Implicit Hierarchy Visualization: A Survey (p. A spherical variation was also tested out: Source: The Design Space of Implicit Hierarchy Visualization: A Survey, p. 3D Polar Treemap. 3D Polar Steptree.

Experimentation 40

Experimentation Visualization Testing IT 40

Occam's Razor

FEBRUARY 22, 2010

Feel better? : ) When should you start doing paid search advertising for tours to Italy for 2011? If steps 1 and 2 pass the sniff test, use the data. Your traffic grew by 6% last year, what was your competitor's growth rate? In May 2010 (!). 9 points higher, now you deserve a bonus! Really spend time on this.

Metrics 124

Metrics Advertising Reporting Data Collection 124

AWS Big Data

MAY 4, 2023

Dataset Variables Disk Size Xarray Dataset Size Region ERA5 2011–2020 (120 netcdf files) 53.5GB 364.1 Jupyter notebook As part of the solution launch, we deploy a preconfigured Jupyter notebook to help test the cross-Regional Dask solution. The following table summarizes our dataset details.

Data Processing 108

Data Processing Metadata Informatics Interactive 108

DataRobot Blog

MAY 26, 2022

When the FRB’s guidance was first introduced in 2011, modelers often employed traditional regression -based models for their business needs. This may be accomplished through a wide variety of tests, to develop a deeper introspection into how the model behaves. Conclusion.

Risk 52

Risk Modeling Metrics Business Objectives 52

Edwin Chen

AUGUST 14, 2014

How can we understand causal lifts in the absence of an A/B test? Assume that it's impossible to run an A/B test now that the feature has been launched.) You can see that in 2011, it tended to upload videos on Tuesdays and Fridays, but it shifted to uploads on Wednesday and Saturday at the end of the year. Propensity Modeling.

Modeling 75

Modeling Measurement Sales Testing 75

Domino Data Lab

AUGUST 22, 2019

Note: A test set of 19,500 such analogies was developed by Tomas Mikolov and his colleagues in their 2013 word2vec paper. This test set is available at download.tensorflow.org/data/questions-words.txt.]. Relative to extrinsic evaluations, intrinsic tests are quick. Note that the final test word in Table 11.2—ma’am—is

Deep Learning 111

Deep Learning Modeling Metrics Testing 111

Jen Stirrup

OCTOBER 21, 2019

For the leaders, the simplest option can simply be doing nothing, but let someone run around burning themselves out so that eventually it becomes a test of patience and stamina, rather than a test of what is right and wrong. For the complainant, they are being asked to expend energy by complaining. The Diversity Management Perspective.

Data-driven 49

Data-driven Marketing Testing Insurance 49

The Unofficial Google Data Science Blog

MAY 31, 2016

Similarly, we could test the effectiveness of a search ad compared to showing only organic search results. Structure of a geo experiment A typical geo experiment consists of two distinct time periods: pretest and test. After the test period finishes, the campaigns in the treatment group are reset to their original configurations.

Advertising 43

Advertising Testing Sales Statistics 43

AWS Big Data

APRIL 5, 2023

We went through user research, development, and beta tests in a span of 6 months, which was a fast turnaround and a big win for us,” says Minnaert. Showpad also launched dashboards and reports to over 1,300 customers worldwide, providing access to tens of thousands of users across all its customers.

Dashboards 52

Dashboards Reporting Cost-Benefit Visualization 52

BizAcuity

MAY 10, 2022

2011: IBM enters the cloud market with IBM SmartCloud. AWS rolls out SageMaker, designed to build, train, test and deploy machine learning (ML) models. [You can read more on IaaS, PaaS and SaaS here ]. 2009: Amazon releases its own Relational Database Services on cloud to simplify set up and operations.

Data-driven 52

Data-driven IoT Unstructured Data Data Lake 52

Domino Data Lab

APRIL 3, 2019

Fun fact: in 2011 Google bought remnants of what had previously been Motorola. data to train and test models poses new challenges: The need for reproducibility in analytics workflows becomes more acute. So much data is flowing through the other parts, but that’s not the concern of DG solutions. Does machine learning change priorities?

Machine Learning 84

Machine Learning Data Governance Metadata Data Science 84

Domino Data Lab

MARCH 3, 2019

I’m here mostly to provide McLuhan quotes and test the patience of our copy editors with hella Californian colloquialisms. This contrast provides a good basis for drawing distinctions between the leaders and the laggards. Seriously, Ben gets credit for foresight on how to organize those surveys. Plus blatant overuse of intertextual parataxis.

Data Science 49

Data Science Deep Learning Machine Learning Modeling 49

CIO Business Intelligence

APRIL 9, 2025

2011 Turing Award winner Judea Pearls landmark work The Book of Why (2020) explains it well when he states that correlation is not causation and you are smarter than your data. For example, an analytics dashboard that correlates shipping data gaps in a logistics view could be correlated to quantities released for distribution in a warehouse.

Enterprise 102

Enterprise Analytics Experimentation Statistics 102

CIO Business Intelligence

MARCH 10, 2022

years, a record it shares with the z114, launched in September 2011 and destined to be supported through December 2022. Wazi is a suite of tools IBM introduced back in 2020 with which developers can write z/OS applications and then test them in a z/OS sandbox on their own x86 hardware. years after its launch in June 2006.

Sales 130

Sales Testing Experimentation Data Processing 130

Occam's Razor

OCTOBER 21, 2013

In late 2011, Google announced an effort to make search behavior more secure. If you want to stress test this,… go back to your 2011 (pre- not provided ) data for paid and organic and see what you can find. Logged-in users were switched to using httpS from http. I would humbly suggest not.

Optimization 156

Optimization Reporting Metrics Experimentation 156

Occam's Razor

APRIL 25, 2011

" I'd postulated this rule in 2005, it is even more true in 2011. Making website iterations based on executive opinions, but not site testing. via Jordan Silton] "With testing you can prove if Executives are right or not, and maybe, just maybe figure out WHY. The 10/90 rule. People matter.

Marketing 127

Marketing Metrics Measurement Testing 127

Occam's Razor

SEPTEMBER 13, 2016

If you are curious, here is a April 2011 post: The Difference Between Web Reporting And Web Analysis. If these 50 pass the sniff test, send the survey. Don't repeat things for years without constantly stress-testing for reality. Take 10 mins each. Else, know that your survey stinks. Don't hire Askers-Pukers.

Modeling 128

Modeling Reporting Strategy Consulting 128

The Unofficial Google Data Science Blog

OCTOBER 12, 2017

Yet when we use these tools to explore data and look for anomalies or interesting features, we are implicitly formulating and testing hypotheses after we have observed the outcomes. We must correct for multiple hypothesis tests. In addition to the issues above, does the conclusion pass the smell test?

Experimentation 62

Experimentation Testing Statistics Metrics 62

Occam's Razor

JUNE 4, 2018

Checkout the Kimbao Sauvignon Blanc you can see sales and would buy it again rates since 2011. Such is the case with A/B testing. Naked Wines has a lovely widget next to each of their wines that shows the would buy again rate…. And, they show you historical sales and would buy it again rates. At 91%, the rate is highest this year.

Strategy 125

Strategy Cost-Benefit Testing Sales 125

Domino Data Lab

JULY 9, 2019

A “data scientist” might build a multistage processing pipeline in Python, design a hypothesis test, perform a regression analysis over data samples with R, design and implement an algorithm in Hadoop, or communicate the results of our analyses to other members of the organization in a clear and concise fashion.

Data Science 112

Data Science Machine Learning Advertising Modeling 112