Smart Data Collective

FEBRUARY 14, 2023

It’s seemingly compulsory for most developers to build mobile versions of their applications or risk losing millions of potential users. Many people tend to forget their app updates, which can pose significant risks. But, using browser-based apps removes this risk altogether. They will replace mobile apps for many applications.

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datapine

MAY 9, 2019

The fact is, without business intelligence, you risk the very real possibility of drowning in data. Just look at these numbers: according to CloudTweaks, in 2015 there were 2.5 To highlight the importance of business intelligence concepts in the modern age, here are the key benefits of embracing the power of BI: 1.

Business Intelligence 270

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AWS Big Data

MAY 16, 2024

You can now reduce your cluster’s storage and compute capacity by removing sets of brokers, with no availability impact, data durability risk, or disruption to your data streaming applications. MSK performs the necessary validations to safeguard against data durability risks and gracefully removes the brokers from the cluster.

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AWS Big Data

NOVEMBER 17, 2023

In our testing, the dataset was stored in Amazon S3 in non-compressed Parquet format and the AWS Glue Data Catalog was used to store metadata for databases and tables. Testing on the TPC-DS benchmark showed an 11% improvement in overall query performance when using CBO compared to without it. Pathik Shah is a Sr.

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CIO Business Intelligence

APRIL 6, 2022

based developer of training, tools and testing technology for website accessibility. Prescription discount company SingleCare has slowly stripped away inaccessible elements of its website since its launch in 2015. That’s a tricky order. Navigation has been streamlined, buttons have increased in size and language has been simplified.

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IBM Big Data Hub

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

1 Slowly but surely, institutional investors started to recognize that companies could potentially improve financial performance and risk management by focusing on ESG issues like greenhouse gas emissions. The last decade: an evolving landscape By 2015, the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) replaced the MDGs.

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CIO Business Intelligence

SEPTEMBER 6, 2022

It launched its first online-only brand, Very, in 2009 and finally abandoned its printed catalogs to go all-in online in 2015. Pimblett took a carrot-and-stick approach to get everyone working together, partnering with them on value creation (the carrot of profit) and risk mitigation (the stick of compliance).

IT 98

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CIO Business Intelligence

JULY 6, 2023

Spreading the news Telecom provider AT&T began trialing RPA in 2015 to decrease the number of repetitive tasks, such as order entry, for its service delivery group. Another benefit is greater risk management. Another good practice is to test and learn from solutions early and often. Pilot to accelerate results.

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CIO Business Intelligence

NOVEMBER 7, 2022

While we weren’t naïve to the risk of disruption to the business, the extent and magnitude was greater than we anticipated.” The auditors noted that rollout of “the first phases” of CLS was now expected that same year, and added recommendations on managing outsourcing risk to their earlier warnings. By March 2019, things were slipping.

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Smart Data Collective

JUNE 10, 2019

As a result, CPAs need to rethink the way they advise clients that might be at a high risk of evasion. It requires the holder to pass entry exams, but also to have three years of relevant professional experience – handy if you’re keen to hire someone who’s already been tried and tested on the job. CFA: Chartered Financial Analyst.

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The Unofficial Google Data Science Blog

JULY 22, 2020

One reason to do ramp-up is to mitigate the risk of never before seen arms. A ramp-up strategy may mitigate the risk of upsetting the site’s loyal users who perhaps have strong preferences for the current statistics that are shown. For example, imagine a fantasy football site is considering displaying advanced player statistics.

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CIO Business Intelligence

APRIL 22, 2022

To prevent malicious attacks, security assessments like penetration testing can help diminish risks by uncovering meaningful insights that highlight the weaknesses attackers can use to compromise your organization. By regularly testing for vulnerabilities, companies are 2.5 Don’t put your company and reputation at risk.

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Domino Data Lab

JULY 2, 2019

For more background about program synthesis, check out “ Program Synthesis Explained ” by James Bornholt from 2015, as well as the more recent “ Program Synthesis in 2017-18 ” by Alex Polozov from 2018. For details, see their SIGMOD 2015 paper where Michael Armbrust & co. This field is guaranteed to get interesting. SQL and Spark.

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CIO Business Intelligence

MAY 17, 2022

A few years ago, the leadership realized that the banking industry is going to be dominated by great tech companies that manage risk exceptionally well. Risk management was always one of the core foundations of the company. The biggest thing we did was data testing. Moving to the cloud can be a very scary conversation.

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Sisense

FEBRUARY 24, 2021

But that number rose sharply afterwards, with the team noting there were over 1,000 people in this role by 2015. This could be because that department is testing out an idea or may just have a specific niche use case for its area. Or do they encourage novel ideas at the risk of having unconnected data?

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IBM Big Data Hub

MARCH 29, 2024

GraphQL GraphQL is a query language and API runtime that Facebook developed internally in 2012 before it became open source in 2015. Tools like GraphiQL and GraphQL Playground provide powerful, in-browser, integrated development environments (IDEs) for exploring and testing GraphQL APIs.

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CIO Business Intelligence

MARCH 22, 2022

He co-founded Room on Call (now Hotelopedia) in 2015, where he set up the complete technology infrastructure, development, product management, and operations. At Fractal, Tiwari will be responsible for the company’s digital transformation and overseeing IT operations, cybersecurity, and risk management. . Kamal Goel Web Werks.

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Cloudera

AUGUST 6, 2018

For example, Crisis Text Line , which provides online support to people in crisis, received a total of 8 m illion text messages in the first two years of its existence between 2013 and 2015. Fox Foundation is testing a watch-type wearable device in Australia to continuously monitor the symptoms of patients with Parkinson’s disease.

Machine Learning 50

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Ontotext

FEBRUARY 2, 2021

Attempts to manipulate share prices by using social media to spread false or misleading information about stocks lead to the SEC’s Investor Alert of 2015, warning institutional investors about the possible impact of social media. However, it is difficult to map the r/WallStreetBets events to the classic financial fraud models.

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IBM Big Data Hub

AUGUST 11, 2023

These insights can help drive decisions in business, and advance the design and testing of applications. Improve models with automation—In this stage, similar to the error process above, teams use established training data to automate improvement of the model being tested.

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The Unofficial Google Data Science Blog

NOVEMBER 4, 2015

One way to check $f_theta$ is to gather test data and check whether the model fits the relationship between training and test data. This tests the model’s ability to distinguish what is common for each item between the two data sets (the underlying $theta$) and what is different (the draw from $f_theta$).

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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.

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The Unofficial Google Data Science Blog

APRIL 23, 2024

Multiparameter experiments, however, generate richer data than standard A/B tests, and automated t-tests alone are insufficient to analyze them well. Utility or risk for us is close to a step function: it is important to find some improvement, and less important to make that improvement as big as possible right away.

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The Unofficial Google Data Science Blog

JUNE 30, 2016

A naïve way to solve this problem would be to compare the proportion of buyers between the exposed and unexposed groups, using a simple test for equality of means. See Hainmueller (2012), and the work of Zhao & Percival (2015) for more details on how this optimization problem is solved, and for further discussion.

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Occam's Razor

JANUARY 9, 2012

I've discovered that if we can just get them to imagine a better existence, undertake serious risks, experiment with new better ideas, and spend money executing them… they will ask for more robust measurement! AND you can control for risk! You can literally control for risk should everything blow up in your face.

Marketing 142

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Domino Data Lab

AUGUST 1, 2021

This dataset classifies customers based on a set of attributes into two credit risk groups – good or bad. After forming the X and y variables, we split the data into training and test sets. This is to be expected, as there is no reason for a perfect 50:50 separation of the good vs. bad credit risk. See Wei et al.

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O'Reilly on Data

DECEMBER 9, 2019

We use the diagnostic test results of our regression model to support the reasons why CIs should not be used in financial data analyses. Modern portfolio theory assumes that rational, risk-averse investors demand a risk premium, a return in excess of a risk-free asset such as a treasury bill, for investing in risky assets such as equities.

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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

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Occam's Razor

JANUARY 31, 2017

I'm doing it to have the ability to simplify things, and take risks. In our case, every table, every slide that comes from a piece of data, has to pass the so what test. I could have totally bombed, it is a price I'm willing to pay. I'm willing to make a tough choice. I highly recommend that you do too.

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Rita Sallam

APRIL 2, 2023

Qlik Key Findings: In the US alone, there’s $367 billion in agricultural commodities at risk to flooding in the US alone. A large part of under-developed Asian countries ranging from Bangladesh to Vietnam are at high risk of flooding events. million people at risk of catastrophic, flooding. In 2000, the Netherlands had 8.5

Optimization 52

Optimization Machine Learning Insurance Data Science 52

IBM Big Data Hub

FEBRUARY 22, 2024

Defense leaders focused on operationalizing the responsible curation of AI must first agree upon a shared vocabulary—a common culture that guides safe, responsible use of AI—before they implement technological solutions and guardrails that mitigate risk. Designate accountable people to mitigate these risks.

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datapine

DECEMBER 28, 2021

To make sure the reliability is high, there are various techniques to perform – the first of them being the control tests, which should have similar results when reproducing an experiment in similar conditions. Drinking tea increases diabetes by 50%, and baldness raises the cardiovascular disease risk up to 70%! They sure can.

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CIO Business Intelligence

MAY 17, 2022

Even if the AI apocalypse doesn’t come to pass, shortchanging AI ethics poses big risks to society — and to the enterprises that deploy those AI systems. The following real-world implementation issues highlight prominent risks every IT leader must account for in putting together their company’s AI deployment strategy.

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CIO Business Intelligence

JANUARY 1, 2025

The financial mantra that market volatility is a good time to invest would be thoroughly tested. Koletzki had taken AerCap through many technology iterations since he was headhunted for the CIO role in 2015. So far so good. Today AerCap has $74 billion in assets, 300 customers, and is posting record incomes.

Strategy 101

Strategy Cost-Benefit Data-driven Finance 101

Timo Elliott

NOVEMBER 14, 2024

Real-World Examples of Greenwashing Some of the most notorious greenwashing scandals illustrate both deliberate deception and regulatory gray areas: Volkswagen’s Dieselgate: The automaker was fined over $25 billion in 2015 for equipping vehicles with devices that manipulated emissions tests.

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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. Broadcom to buy AppNeta.

Technology 143

Technology Enterprise Consulting Software 143

O'Reilly on Data

JUNE 16, 2020

The quality of the decision is based on known information and an informed risk assessment, while chance involves hidden information and the stochasticity of the world. Consider risk not only in terms of likelihood but also in terms of the impact of your decisions. Risk, Probability, Impact, and Decisions.

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