Occam's Razor

APRIL 8, 2013

To win in business you need to follow this process: Metrics > Hypothesis > Experiment > Act. We are far too enamored with data collection and reporting the standard metrics we love because others love them because someone else said they were nice so many years ago. That metric is tied to a KPI.

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CIO Business Intelligence

JANUARY 21, 2025

Deloittes State of Generative AI in the Enterprise reports nearly 70% have moved 30% or fewer of their gen AI experiments into production, and 41% of organizations have struggled to define and measure the impacts of their gen AI efforts.

Cost-Benefit 142

Cost-Benefit Data-driven Strategy Marketing 142

AWS Big Data

DECEMBER 18, 2024

Lexical search relies on exact keyword matching between the query and documents. For a natural language query searching for super hero toys, it retrieves documents containing those exact terms. Documents are first turned into an embedding or encoded offline and queries are encoded online at search time. See Cohere Rerank 3.5

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CIO Business Intelligence

APRIL 21, 2022

You might have heard that if you can’t measure you can’t manage. And if you think you need metrics to manage you might be feeling guilty about not having enough of them. Good metrics are hard to craft, harder to manage, expensive to maintain, and perishable besides. Bad metrics are worse than no metrics.

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BA Learnings

MARCH 26, 2020

While some companies identify business benefits with the sole intention of getting business cases approved, more mature companies tend to devote their resources to tracking and measuring these business benefits after the projects have been concluded. This is particularly central to fostering continuous improvement.

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AWS Big Data

NOVEMBER 3, 2023

In this post, we explore how to combine AWS Glue usage information and metrics with centralized reporting and visualization using QuickSight. You have metrics available per job run within the AWS Glue console, but they don’t cover all available AWS Glue job metrics, and the visuals aren’t as interactive compared to the QuickSight dashboard.

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CIO Business Intelligence

MARCH 25, 2025

What CIOs can do: Avoid and reduce data debt by incorporating data governance and analytics responsibilities in agile data teams , implementing data observability , and developing data quality metrics.

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IBM Big Data Hub

MARCH 14, 2024

One key advantage of opting for managed Kafka services is the delegation of responsibility for broker and operational metrics, allowing users to focus solely on metrics specific to applications. With Kafka, monitoring typically involves various metrics that are related to topics, partitions, brokers and consumer groups.

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CIO Business Intelligence

MARCH 5, 2025

These large-scale, asset-driven enterprises generate an overwhelming amount of information, from engineering drawings and standard operating procedures (SOPs) to compliance documentation and quality assurance data. Document management and accessibility are vital for teamsworking on construction projects in the energy sector.

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O'Reilly on Data

OCTOBER 13, 2020

Ideally, AI PMs would steer development teams to incorporate I/O validation into the initial build of the production system, along with the instrumentation needed to monitor model accuracy and other technical performance metrics. But in practice, it is common for model I/O validation steps to be added later, when scaling an AI product.

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Smart Data Collective

AUGUST 30, 2021

The simplest way is to measure the performance of your knowledge management. Unlike marketing metrics, knowledge management is challenging to measure. While there is no magic wand that you can swish and flick, there are certain metrics that you can track to measure the success of your knowledge base. Contributions.

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AWS Big Data

FEBRUARY 21, 2025

Search applications include ecommerce websites, document repository search, customer support call centers, customer relationship management, matchmaking for gaming, and application search. OpenSearch ranks results based on a measure of similarity to the search query, returning the most similar results.

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CIO Business Intelligence

MARCH 4, 2025

This article goes behind the scenes on whats fueling Blocks investment in developer experience, key initiatives including the role of an engineering intelligence platform , and how the company measures and drives success. These select choices can then be of high quality, well-supported, documented, maintained, secure, and reliable.

Experimentation 69

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Jet Global

MAY 15, 2020

A financial Key Performance Indicator (KPI) or metric is a quantifiable measure that a company uses to gauge its financial performance over time. These three statements are data rich and full of financial metrics. The Fundamental Finance KPIs and Metrics – Cash Flow. What is a Financial KPI? Current Ratio.

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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. Qualitative analysis focuses on data that isn’t defined by numbers or metrics such as interviews, videos, and anecdotes.

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CIO Business Intelligence

JANUARY 30, 2025

This is the process that ensures the effective and efficient use of IT resources and ensures the effective evaluation, selection, prioritization and funding of competing IT investments to get measurable business benefits. You can also measure user AI skills, adoption rates and even the maturity level of the governance model itself.

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CIO Business Intelligence

APRIL 8, 2025

Data quality must be embedded into how data is structured, governed, measured and operationalized. Publish metadata, documentation and use guidelines. Make it easy to discover, understand and use data through accessible catalogs and standardized documentation. Continuous measurement of data quality. Measure and improve.

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datapine

APRIL 15, 2020

Working software over comprehensive documentation. The agile BI implementation methodology starts with light documentation: you don’t have to heavily map this out. But before production, you need to develop documentation, test driven design (TDD), and implement these important steps: Actively involve key stakeholders once again.

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datapine

AUGUST 12, 2020

In your daily business, many different aspects and ‘activities’ are constantly changing – sales trends and volume, marketing performance metrics, warehouse operational shifts, or inventory management changes. The next in our rundown of dynamic business reports examples comes in the form of our specialized SaaS metrics dashboard.

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datapine

MAY 27, 2020

It’s possible to write an analytical report using a spreadsheet, whitepaper, or a simple Word document or file. By using an online dashboard , you will be able to gain access to dynamic metrics and data in a way that’s digestible, actionable, and accurate. Primary KPIs: Treatment Costs. ER Wait Time. Patient Wait Time.

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Reporting Analytics Dashboards Sales 245

CIO Business Intelligence

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

When Bedi talks of enhancing “agent” productivity, he uses the term broadly to mean HR staff, IT service desk operatives, customer service agents, and sales staff, all of whom can benefit from generative AI’s ability to find answers in masses of documentation. Measurement is key, he says. he says, 58% said yes after one month of use.

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Jet Global

MARCH 4, 2020

A manufacturing Key Performance Indicator (KPI) or metric is a well defined and quantifiable measure that the manufacturing industry uses to gauge its performance over time. The only way to stay ahead in this fiercely competitive industry is through the implementation of manufacturing KPIs and metrics. View Guide Now.

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AWS Big Data

MARCH 10, 2025

Amazon Redshift Serverless automatically scales compute capacity to match workload demands, measuring this capacity in Redshift Processing Units (RPUs). We encourage you to measure your current price-performance by using sys_query_history to calculate the total elapsed time of your workload and note the start time and end time.

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datapine

JANUARY 21, 2020

The balance sheet gives an overview of the main metrics which can easily define trends and the way company assets are being managed. Every serious business uses key performance indicators to measure and evaluate success. It doesn’t stop here. Another crucial factor to consider is the possibility to utilize real-time data.

Business Intelligence 259

Business Intelligence Reporting Cost-Benefit Dashboards 259

CIO Business Intelligence

MAY 1, 2024

Very specific successes There are gen AI success stories in verticals like document engineering, where Docugami offers custom small language models that build a knowledge graph from a customer’s own complex documents, and can be used for both document generation and to extract data. What are you measuring?

Cost-Benefit 143

Cost-Benefit Metrics Insurance Measurement 143

O'Reilly on Data

DECEMBER 12, 2019

The study of security in ML is a growing field—and a growing problem, as we documented in a recent Future of Privacy Forum report. [8]. Residuals are a numeric measurement of model errors, essentially the difference between the model’s prediction and the known true outcome. Currency amounts reported in Taiwan dollars.

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datapine

JUNE 5, 2019

Data dashboards provide a centralized, interactive means of monitoring, measuring, analyzing, and extracting a wealth of business insights from relevant datasets in several key areas while displaying aggregated information in a way that is both intuitive and visual. Learn all about data dashboards with our executive bite-sized summary!

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CIO Business Intelligence

AUGUST 1, 2024

But more recently, executive management has asked IT to justify these projects by documenting the benefits and value to the business. Dev teams can use existing metrics as guideposts for application design, evaluating the current apps to identify the most beneficial ways to use AI. This is a smart move.

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ROI Metrics Measurement Risk 105

Juice Analytics

APRIL 6, 2021

Habit 1: Define shared metrics Data fluency requires getting everyone on the same page as to what matters most. Matt Lerner in conjunction with Business of Software delivers online workshops that help you determine your “North Star Metric” and the set of key drivers that are bottlenecks to achieving that overall success.

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Metrics Dashboards Data-driven Data Quality 132

AWS Big Data

JULY 11, 2024

Getting started with OpenSearch Benchmark OpenSearch Benchmark, a tool provided by the OpenSearch Project , comprehensively gathers performance metrics from OpenSearch clusters, including indexing throughput and search latency. The document corpus contains indexes, data files, and operations invoked when the workflow runs.

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CIO Business Intelligence

JUNE 21, 2024

A service-level agreement (SLA) defines the level of service expected by a customer from a supplier, laying out metrics by which that service is measured, and the remedies or penalties, if any, should service levels not be achieved. Metrics should be designed so bad behavior by either party is not rewarded. What is an SLA?

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Metrics Measurement Cost-Benefit Key Performance Indicator 96

The Unofficial Google Data Science Blog

OCTOBER 31, 2016

We were often asked to make sense of confusing results, measure new phenomena from logged behavior, validate analyses done by others, and interpret metrics of user behavior. To answer those questions, I put together a document shared Google-wide which I optimistically and simply titled “Good Data Analysis.”

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David Menninger's Analyst Perspectives

OCTOBER 23, 2024

In a previous role I was actively involved with identifying and implementing dashboards and reports tracking key sales department metrics and KPIs for enterprise-size customers as well as high-tech growth companies. Wind the clock forward and in my role as an industry analyst I now talk to customers and have a wider view of the market.

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AWS Big Data

JULY 29, 2024

You will learn about an open-source solution that can collect important metrics from the Iceberg metadata layer. Based on collected metrics, we will provide recommendations on how to improve the efficiency of Iceberg tables. Key features This solution uses an AWS Lambda deployment package to collect metrics from Apache Iceberg tables.

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datapine

MAY 5, 2023

YoY growth is an effective means of measuring your ongoing progress and making sure your business is moving in the right direction. Here we’re going to look at the concept of YoY and consider how you can use this essential metric to your business-boosting advantage. That’s where year over year (YoY) growth enters the mix.

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CIO Business Intelligence

SEPTEMBER 10, 2024

This AI-augmented approach ensures that no critical feature falls through the cracks and that accurate requirements documents reduce the likelihood of defects. This AI-augmented approach ensures that no critical feature falls through the cracks and that accurate requirements documents reduce the likelihood of defects.

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Smart Data Collective

DECEMBER 13, 2021

You can simplify things by documenting all of this, as the more thorough your coverage, the better equipped you will be to monitor and maintain it. Work out what metrics to track. There are all sorts of measurable performance metrics which will give you an insight into how your database is performing from moment to moment.

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