Occam's Razor

JULY 12, 2010

I want to constantly be in the know of new and more clever ways of working with data, tools that are often solutions to problems we don't know we have yet or tools that are sometimes seeking problems to solve!! Well not crap… lots of data that no one cared about or actioned. More desire to be data driven.

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Occam's Razor

JUNE 6, 2007

I am thrilled to say that my book Web Analytics: An Hour A Day has been published and is now widely available. It has been such an amazing journey to write the book, and for it to come up almost exactly a year after I started this blog. Damini, Chirag and now the book! :). Part One: The book (my side of the story, details).

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FineReport

JULY 4, 2023

By regularly and automatically measuring KPIs, you can enhance productivity and reduce costs. This approach not only helps extract additional value from organizational data but also facilitates setting targets and measuring incremental progress in crucial areas of the business. Why do Businesses Track KPIs?

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Andrew White

JANUARY 9, 2022

On Thursday January 6th I hosted Gartner’s 2022 Leadership Vision for Data and Analytics webinar. – In the webinar and Leadership Vision deck for Data and Analytics we called out AI engineering as a big trend. I would take a look at our Top Trends for Data and Analytics 2021 for additional AI, ML and related trends.

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Domino Data Lab

MAY 8, 2019

For example, common practices for collecting data to build training datasets tend to throw away valuable information along the way. The lens of reductionism and an overemphasis on engineering becomes an Achilles heel for data science work. ML model interpretability and data visualization. St Paul’s from Madison London.

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Domino Data Lab

FEBRUARY 4, 2019

In Paco Nathan ‘s latest column, he explores the role of curiosity in data science work as well as Rev 2 , an upcoming summit for data science leaders. Welcome back to our monthly series about data science. and dig into details about where science meets rhetoric in data science. Introduction.

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Occam's Razor

DECEMBER 12, 2016

There is, almost literally, an unlimited number of things you could focus on to create a high impact data-influenced organization. I was asked a few weeks back: " What companies should we proactively help with analytics, for free, so that they can make smarter data-influenced decisions ?" Data quality plays a role into this.

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Ontotext

MAY 18, 2020

Ever since Hippocrates founded his school of medicine in ancient Greece some 2,500 years ago, writes Hannah Fry in her book Hello World: Being Human in the Age of Algorithms , what has been fundamental to healthcare (as she calls it “the fight to keep us healthy”) was observation, experimentation and the analysis of data.

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Alation

FEBRUARY 13, 2020

In his book titled “The Fourth Industrial Revolution,” Klaus Schwab describes the age as, “characterized by a much more ubiquitous and mobile internet, by smaller and more powerful sensors that have become cheaper, and by artificial intelligence and machine learning.” 53% are not yet treating data as a business asset.

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FineReport

JUNE 26, 2023

Here are several key rationales highlighting the criticality of utilizing performance reporting in business: Establishing benchmarks : Performance reports act as benchmarks by incorporating baseline data, allowing comparisons to determine the effectiveness of new projects, marketing endeavors, budgeting initiatives, and other company-wide efforts.

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Occam's Razor

AUGUST 13, 2012

The questions reveal a bunch of things we used to worry about, and continue to, like data quality and creating data driven cultures. Yehoshua Coren: Best ways to measure user behavior in a multi-touch, multi-device digital world. What's possible to measure. What's not possible to measure.

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Occam's Razor

SEPTEMBER 4, 2012

Re-imagining what it means to get access to customer data and. I'm on the road a lot and to book an upcoming flight, I take out my Samsung Galaxy S3 ( my review + tips ) and type in the name of my favorite website, Travelocity. Data-driven decision making! :). I'm already giving them so much of my data.

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Domino Data Lab

AUGUST 20, 2019

Many thanks to AWP Pearson for the permission to excerpt “Manual Feature Engineering: Manipulating Data for Fun and Profit” from the book, Machine Learning with Python for Everyone by Mark E. Feature engineering is useful for data scientists when assessing tradeoff decisions regarding the impact of their ML models.

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Occam's Razor

SEPTEMBER 15, 2014

But why blame others, in this post let's focus on one important reason whose responsibility can be squarely put on your shoulders and mine: Measurement. Create a distinct mobile website and mobile app measurement strategies. look at that person, give them a hug, then mark them in your book as enemy using red ink.

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Occam's Razor

MAY 27, 2015

A data-first strategy is a winning formula. The content of the letter could be customized to Stephanie's data/behavior. In large measure that is because of the rise of programmatic buying. A data-first strategy is a winning formula. Look at the right nav on this blog, two best selling books in 13 languages!

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Occam's Razor

MARCH 23, 2010

Too many new things are happening too fast and those of us charged with measuring it have to change the wheels while the bicycle is moving at 30 miles per hour (and this bicycle will become a car before we know it – all while it keeps moving, ever faster). You'll have no time for data analysis, certainly not for data actioning. ~

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Alation

FEBRUARY 17, 2023

This past week, I had the pleasure of hosting Data Governance for Dummies author Jonathan Reichental for a fireside chat , along with Denise Swanson , Data Governance lead at Alation. Reichental’s book as well as my own experience as a data governance leader for 30+ years. Establishing a solid vision and mission is key.

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Jet Global

JUNE 30, 2021

A chief executive officer (CEO) key performance indicator (KPI) or metric is a relative performance measure that a CEO will use to make informed decisions. This CEO metric is used to measure how much money a company generates from its ongoing operations. It measures the profitability of a company with respect to stockholder’s equity.

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Jet Global

NOVEMBER 15, 2021

A Tax Key Performance Indicator (KPI) or metric is a clearly defined quantifiable measure that an organization, or business, uses to measure the success of its Tax Function over time. In order to effectively manage tax cost, it is important to look at the tax KPIs that will help the tax function measure their effectiveness.

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Occam's Razor

OCTOBER 12, 2017

The tiny downside of this is that our parents likely never had to invest as much in constant education, experimentation and self-driven investment in core skills. Years and years of practice with R or "Big Data." Here are the collection of books, videos, people and learning opportunities from my sweetspot….

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Jet Global

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

University KPIs are the tools that many universities use to measure their success and progress towards their goals. Those without KPIs are left without any valuable statistics, while those with established performance tracking dashboards are able to make data driven decisions. Effective Data Collection.

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Jet Global

MAY 1, 2023

By leveraging data analysis to solve high-value business problems, they will become more efficient. This is in contrast to traditional BI, which extracts insight from data outside of the app. that gathers data from many sources. These tools prep that data for analysis and then provide reporting on it from a central viewpoint.

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Jet Global

MARCH 4, 2024

While there is talk of the first filing being delayed until 2026, this still only leaves limited time to build robust systems and processes for gathering, verifying, and reporting comprehensive ESG data. Moving data across siloed systems is time-consuming and prone to errors, hurting data quality and reliability.

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