Smart Data Collective

MAY 4, 2023

However, the Identity Theft Resource Center reports a 68% increase in data breaches at corporations in 2021, surpassing the previous record rise of 23% in 2017. As data breaches continue to be a serious concern, organizations need to take stringent measures to protect against them. The truth is that data breaches are as common as ever.

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Risk Management Key Performance Indicator Measurement Risk 114

CIO Business Intelligence

DECEMBER 9, 2022

In The Talent Delusion: Why Data, Not Intuition, Is the Key to Unlocking Human Potential , from 2017, Tomas Chamorro-Premuzic explains that “All organizations have problems and they nearly always concern people.” Unfortunately, the “war” metaphor, and its tendency toward dualities, is pervasive in hiring strategies and approaches.

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CIO Business Intelligence

SEPTEMBER 26, 2023

But because electricity consumption was easy to gauge, there was no urgency for measuring current and low voltage power flows. That changed in 2017 when Swiss voters approved an energy act that would reduce the country’s dependency on fossil fuels by 2050. Without real-time power measurements, estimated power values were being used.

Machine Learning 106

Machine Learning Forecasting Measurement Data Warehouse 106

CIO Business Intelligence

MAY 27, 2024

CISOs are increasingly anxious because while they realize the ax will fall on them when the inevitable breach occurs, securing boardroom support for heavy investment in preventative measures, like training, is challenging in a world where revenue is demanded for each dollar spent. “The Here are some key strategies: 1.

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CIO Business Intelligence

MAY 29, 2024

For many, this spring’s RSA show was an energized, optimistic experience, similar to the pre-pandemic years of 2017-2019. RSA provided strategies and tools for security experts to help defend their networks, with over 600 exhibitors and countless sessions displaying plenty of both.

Machine Learning 133

Machine Learning Enterprise Data-driven Modeling 133

CIO Business Intelligence

MARCH 6, 2024

While the product team was busy doing that, my team worked with the operations functions and our strategy team to completely reimagine our front- and back-office processes and supporting applications to enable this new cloud company. This isn’t just an IT or sales transformation; it’s a complete company transformation. Today, we’re a $1.6

Modeling 116

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CIO Business Intelligence

MAY 14, 2024

Cloud strategies in flux Whatever the future holds for IT leaders’ decisions on enterprise AI workloads, private clouds, once declared DOA, are primed for the AI moment, vendors contend. For all CIOs rethinking their cloud strategies , there are few variables that can change the equation as fast as AI. We have no choice.

IT 143

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Occam's Razor

OCTOBER 12, 2017

One sample strategy: Expect that I'll ask open-ended questions (If a company has 90% Reach on TV, why the heck do they need digital?). Ask them what they worry about, ask them what they are solving for, ask them how they measure success, ask them what are two things on the horizon that they are excited about. Beautiful, right?

Marketing 138

Marketing Analytics Machine Learning Strategy 138

CIO Business Intelligence

MAY 18, 2023

Why not pick up a book that will inspire you to be a more effective leader, help you spot challenges and pitfalls in your IT strategies and processes, or prepare for the future of information technology? Martin’s Press, 2017) by Jocko Willink and Leif Babin. This title breaks teaches you to measure, predict, and build trust. “We

IT 131

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IBM Big Data Hub

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

It refers to a set of metrics used to measure an organization’s environmental and social impact and has become increasingly important in investment decision-making over the years. However, it wasn’t until the 1990s that ESG considerations started to appear in mainstream investment strategies. In 1995, the U.S

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Measurement Metrics Reporting Strategy 77

Insight

AUGUST 29, 2019

In 2017, we expanded the location to include our Data Science program, and in early 2018, we welcomed our first Data Engineering Fellows. Jerry Chen was a Health Data Fellow in 2017 and joined Wayfair as a Senior Data Scientist on their Marketing team; he now manages the Data Science Measurement team.

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BizAcuity

MARCH 25, 2019

For event industry, there is a need for their operating systems to store historical data and unless they store this data, the event management company will not be able to measure or understand the revenue analytics trends. Without this information, revenue analytics are worthless.

Analytics 74

Analytics Dashboards Sales Marketing 74

Domino Data Lab

MAY 20, 2021

This renders measures like classification accuracy meaningless. propose a different strategy where the minority class is over-sampled by generating synthetic examples. note that this variant “performs worse than plain under-sampling based on AUC” when tested on the Adult dataset (Dua & Graff, 2017). Machine Learning, 57–78.

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IBM Big Data Hub

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

These proactive measures are made possible by evolving technologies designed to help people adapt to the effects of climate change today. 5 The Global Disaster Preparedness Center recommends policymakers and others adopt a range of measures to help their regions adapt to higher heat. Global Change Research Program, 2017.

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CIO Business Intelligence

MAY 16, 2023

To gain perspective, Iron Mountain sponsored research by Quadrant Strategies, which used digital listening technologies to study public online conversation trends among enterprise decision-makers. higher [in 2022] than in 2017.” McKinsey & Company’s 2022 Global Survey on AI says , “AI adoption globally is 2.5x

Advertising 105

Advertising Recreation/Entertainment Experimentation Data Collection 105

CIO Business Intelligence

FEBRUARY 6, 2023

One of the first things Patrick Thompson (pictured) did on becoming chief information and digital transformation officer of specialty chemicals manufacturer Albemarle in 2017 was to introduce an annual survey to gauge employee attitudes toward services IT staff provides. Then tackle the business side of things. They’re motivated.

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Digital Transformation Manufacturing Software Strategy 98

CIO Business Intelligence

MAY 19, 2022

For this generation, 2FA is more of a friction-inducing obstacle than a welcome security measure. According to 2017 research from Mastercard, a third of customers will simply walk away if they get locked out of their account. Most customer-facing companies have some kind of multichannel strategy. 4 – They use multiple channels.

Reporting 98

Reporting Interactive Sales Measurement 98

Peter James Thomas

APRIL 9, 2019

As in 2017 , I have failed miserably in my original objective of posting this early in January. This increase was driven in part by the launch of my new Maths & Science section , articles from which claimed no fewer than 6 slots in the 2018 top 10 articles, when measured by hits [1]. How to Spot a Flawed Data Strategy.

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CIO Business Intelligence

MARCH 14, 2024

These aren’t just the basic backup and disaster recovery protocols that already exist, but tools that measure every process and service on business-critical systems to verify they’re performing as expected. Not to replace people, but assign more interesting tasks for them, which becomes more strategic for the company,” he says.

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Digital Transformation Sales Forecasting Data Lake 92

The Unofficial Google Data Science Blog

JULY 22, 2020

by ALEXANDER WAKIM Ramp-up and multi-armed bandits (MAB) are common strategies in online controlled experiments (OCE). These strategies involve changing assignment weights during an experiment. The first is a strategy called ramp-up and is advised by many experts in the field [1].

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Experimentation Statistics Testing Knowledge Discovery 96

Data Insight

FEBRUARY 7, 2019

By Carmen Vicelich, Data Insight CEO A round-up of thoughts and top trends from the NZ Marketing Association’s ‘Smarter Data 2017’ conference. This was further reinforced at the Marketing Association’s sell-out ‘Smarter Data’ event which I had the privilege of chairing on the 11th April 2017.

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Machine Learning Testing Marketing Measurement 40

IBM Big Data Hub

AUGUST 1, 2023

Delivering high levels of resiliency It’s essential for clients to be able to securely manage mission-critical workloads and enable business continuity as they implement strategies to reduce risk and keep pace with market demands.

Digital Transformation 63

Digital Transformation Data Processing Risk Enterprise 63

Alation

AUGUST 26, 2021

Data Governance and Data Strategy. Today, enlightened governance leaders are realizing that governance can service a data strategy that plays both offense and defense. Source: “What’s Your Data Strategy?” HBR Review May/June 2017. Build a Strategy with Goals and Use Cases. by Leandro DalleMule and Thomas H.

Metadata 64

Metadata Data Governance Dashboards Software 64

Data Insight

APRIL 15, 2019

If you look at the metrics of what defines business success from a leadership perspective, a traditional business measurement used to be all about profit and loss, production, efficiency and productivity. What’s my strategy? What does our future strategy and technology roadmap look like? Who accesses the company data?

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Data-driven Metrics Measurement Strategy 40

Jet Global

DECEMBER 4, 2020

Here, we’ll look at five key strategies for expanding revenue in 2021 by leveraging your ERP software and robust financial reporting tools. In 2017, Walmart announced its intention to reduce overall CO2 emissions. Empower Your Sales Team. Barcoding, likewise, is a common requirement imposed by larger customers.

Reporting 52

Reporting Sales Finance Software 52

The Unofficial Google Data Science Blog

APRIL 23, 2024

the weight given to Likes in our video recommendation algorithm) while $Y$ is a vector of outcome measures such as different metrics of user experience (e.g., Taking measurements at parameter settings further from control parameter settings leads to a lower variance estimate of the slope of the line relating the metric to the parameter.

Experimentation 52

Experimentation Optimization Uncertainty Metrics 52

Cloudera

DECEMBER 11, 2017

And, while measuring the global progress on human rights is still a work in progress, assessments at the country level confirm what we see daily on the news. The strategies to reduce the space for civil society affect the entire scope of an organization’s operational and programmatic activities. Opening civic space, globally.

Data-driven 40

Data-driven Strategy Reporting Data Processing 40

Insight

OCTOBER 25, 2019

Challenges and Strategies The difficulty of this project is two-fold. For my project, I decided to try two different strategies to tackle my small data problem?—?one They start with different strategies to transform 3-D into 2-D, followed by distinct machine learning approaches. One being the 3-D nature of our images.

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The Unofficial Google Data Science Blog

APRIL 17, 2017

First, the system may not be understood, and even if it was understood it may be extremely difficult to measure the relationships that are assumed to govern its behavior. For this simple vignette, we might regard $X_1$ and $X_2$ as errors from a measuring scale and note that $X_2$ is not as precise an instrument as $X_1$. OTexts, 2014.

Forecasting 83

Forecasting Modeling Statistics Uncertainty 83

Peter James Thomas

OCTOBER 1, 2019

Throughout I use the word “category” to refer to something discrete that is plotted on an axis, for example France, Germany, Italy and The UK, or 2016, 2017, 2018 and 2019. Most charts have two axes. I use the word “value” to refer to something more continuous plotted on an axis, such as sales or number of items etc.

Sales 61

Sales Measurement Statistics Data Architecture 61

Domino Data Lab

APRIL 3, 2019

Given those two, plus SQL gaining eminence as a database strategy, a decidedly relational picture coalesced throughout the decade. Network security mushrooms with VPNs, IDS , gateways, various bump-in-the-wire solutions, SIMS tying all the anti-intrusion measures within the perimeter together, and so on. credit cards).

Machine Learning 84

Machine Learning Data Governance Metadata Data Science 84

Domino Data Lab

OCTOBER 23, 2019

As a result, there has been a recent explosion in individual statistics that try to measure a player’s impact. Knowing that the ultimate goal is to compare the social-media influence and power of NBA players, a great place to start is with the roster of the NBA players in the 2016–2017 season. 05) in predicting changes in attendance.

Statistics 59

Statistics Machine Learning Testing Modeling 59

Domino Data Lab

AUGUST 8, 2019

Their approach is to bombard “organoid” mini brains living in vats with potential cancer meds, to measure the meds’ relative effects. Then rethink your hiring strategies w.r.t. Public Health Reports (2017-07-10). Afterward, I headed quietly back to my laptop for some light coding to recover. what Chris describes. The best words.

Data Science 71

Data Science Machine Learning Data Governance Statistics 71

Occam's Razor

MAY 2, 2017

I usually ask them back: What are you trying to get done with your digital strategies ? That then takes us down the very best way to answer that question, to use the five-step process to build out the Digital Marketing and Measurement Model. There is no golden metric for everyone, we are all unique snowflakes! :).

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Metrics Key Performance Indicator B2B Measurement 143

Occam's Razor

SEPTEMBER 15, 2014

Nothing I can tell you about the importance of having an incredible mobile strategy will surprise you. If you look at the mobile marketing strategies, you will see they don't reflect this shift to mobile. Create a distinct mobile website and mobile app measurement strategies. Many reasons. Framing the Opportunity.

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Metrics Reporting Analytics Marketing 143

O'Reilly on Data

APRIL 23, 2024

They published the original Transformer paper (not quite coincidentally called “Attention is All You Need”) in 2017, and released BERT , an open source implementation, in late 2018, but they never went so far as to build and release anything like OpenAI’s GPT line of services.

Advertising 341

Advertising Cost-Benefit Marketing Risk 341

Occam's Razor

JUNE 7, 2017

Most of all, I’m excited to frame an important problem, and present solutions that will transform an important part of your marketing strategy. This strategy by businesses lead to what I now call the Zuck Death Spiral. Why is this reality not smacking some sense into your marketing strategy? The Promise of Marketing Utopia.

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