Occam's Razor

NOVEMBER 18, 2014

'Like a vast majority on planet Earth, I love data visualizations. Ok, so perhaps as the author of two bestselling books on analytics I love it a little bit more! There is something magical about taking an incredible amount of complexity and presenting it as simply as we possibly can with the goal of letting the cogently presented insight drive action.

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Visualization Slice and Dice Predictive Modeling Metrics 145

Data Science and Beyond

NOVEMBER 19, 2014

Messy data, buggy software, but all in all a good learning experience. Early last year, I had some free time on my hands, so I decided to participate in yet another Kaggle competition. Having never done any price forecasting work before, I thought it would be interesting to work on the Blue Book for Bulldozers competition, where the goal was to predict the sale price of auctioned bulldozers.

Forecasting 52

Forecasting Sales Software IT 52

Howard Dresner

NOVEMBER 6, 2014

November 2, 2014 It happened so fast …. With one foot in the trap, it looked like he had utterly failed in his mission. … It all started nineteen years earlier when …. Everyone likes a good story. Especially marketing teams in today’s leading businesses. They know that effective storytelling enhances brand and knocks down barriers to sales. Similarly, it’s becoming a powerful way to distribute data and information in business intelligence initiatives.

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MLWhiz

NOVEMBER 30, 2014

In online advertising, click-through rate (CTR) is a very important metric for evaluating ad performance. As a result, click prediction systems are essential and widely used for sponsored search and real-time bidding. For this competition, we have provided 11 days worth of Avazu data to build and test prediction models. Can you find a strategy that beats standard classification algorithms?

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Advertising Predictive Modeling Metrics Testing 40

Advertiser: ZoomInfo

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Sales

Wise Analytics

NOVEMBER 25, 2014

Sometimes people get stuck in the weeds when evaluating technology projects by focusing on key features and product capabilities and not on solving business challenges. Although gathering both business and technical requirements are essential to any successful technology project, projects should start from a business perspective and based on a business pain being experienced.

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Technology Metrics Risk Software 40

Martha Bennett

NOVEMBER 6, 2014

Big data – the Holy Grail of business intelligence (BI)? Big data technologies certainly hold the promise of closing the gap between the data that’s available in your organization, and the ability to make that data available to those who need it, when they need it. But it’s about more than just technology: you also […].

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Big Data Business Intelligence Technology IT 40

Data Science and Beyond

NOVEMBER 4, 2014

This is the fifth part of a series of posts on my Bandcamp recommendations (BCRecommender) project. Check out previous posts on the general motivation behind this project, the system’s architecture, the recommendation algorithms, and initial traction planning. In a previous post, I discussed my plans to apply the Bullseye framework from the Traction Book to BCRecommender, my Bandcamp recommendations project.

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Marketing 52

Wise Analytics

NOVEMBER 16, 2014

Just over a week ago I attended the Enterprise Data & BI Conference Europe in London. The conference focused on many different BI and data management related topics, many of which support mid-market goals to achieve greater visibility and better analytics. The takeaway most interesting to me was the fact that many SMBs are still struggling with their BI implementations.

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Marketing Interactive Technology Enterprise 40

Nutanix

NOVEMBER 10, 2014

Do you know the best Nutanix appliance model for running your specific application workloads? Do you know how many Nutanix nodes you need for optimal capacity and performance?

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Optimization Modeling 20

Nutanix

NOVEMBER 5, 2014

Today at Dell World, Dell and Nutanix announced the general availability of the Dell XC Series Web-scale Converged Appliances. The new appliances are the only solution on the market that integrates a Tier 1 Dell hardware platform with the simplicity and scalability of Nutanix web-scale technology.

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Speaker: Ben Epstein, Stealth Founder & CTO | Tony Karrer, Founder & CTO, Aggregage

When tasked with building a fundamentally new product line with deeper insights than previously achievable for a high-value client, Ben Epstein and his team faced a significant challenge: how to harness LLMs to produce consistent, high-accuracy outputs at scale. In this new session, Ben will share how he and his team engineered a system (based on proven software engineering approaches) that employs reproducible test variations (via temperature 0 and fixed seeds), and enables non-LLM evaluation m

Testing

Nutanix

NOVEMBER 5, 2014

There’s no question that enterprise application usability has for the most part been left behind.

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Nutanix

NOVEMBER 4, 2014

There’s no question that enterprise application usability has for the most part been left behind.

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