Occam's Razor

MAY 5, 2016

You don't use an ad blocker, right? Of course not! You would never want to take away the opportunity a content creator has online to monetize their work via ads. I know that at least some of you think I'm being sarcastic. I am not, and this post is all about getting the data to show you that I am indeed not being sarcastic. I am insanely excited that we can track ad blocking behavior in Google Analytics, so easily.

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Information Builders

MAY 12, 2016

Today is National Book Lover’s Day, and the perfect opportunity to indulge your inner bookworm. According to a Huffington Post blog on the occasion, one of the best ways to celebrate is by giving the gift of reading and passing along a favorite book to others who might enjoy it. With that in mind, we asked some Information Builders colleagues for their best “data reads” and below is a sampling of their suggestions: read more.

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Data Science and Beyond

MAY 14, 2016

Background: I have previously written about the need for real insights that address the why behind events, not only the what and how. This was followed by a fairly popular post on causality, which was heavily influenced by Samantha Kleinberg's book Why: A Guide to Finding and Using Causes. This post continues my exploration of the field, and is primarily based on Kleinberg's previous book: Causality, Probability, and Time.

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Ms SQL Girl

MAY 19, 2016

As you may already know In-database Analytics (also known as Advanced Analytics) is available in SQL Server 2016. To simplify, “In-database Advanced Analytics”: you can run powerful statistical / predictive modelling (from R) inside SQL Server. Read the official definition here. Check Out SQL Latest Bits. SQL Server 2016 RC3 : this includes SQL Server R Services that you can install.

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Advertiser: ZoomInfo

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The Unofficial Google Data Science Blog

MAY 31, 2016

by JOUNI KERMAN, JON VAVER, and JIM KOEHLER Randomized experiments represent the gold standard for determining the causal effects of app or website design decisions on user behavior. We might be interested in comparing, for example, different subscription offers, different versions of terms and conditions, or different user interfaces. When it comes to online ads, there is also a fundamental need to estimate the return on investment.

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Nutanix

MAY 16, 2016

Jon Walton is the CIO for San Mateo County, California. We interviewed Jon for a Nutanix case study last year.

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Information Builders

MAY 19, 2016

Today is National Book Lover’s Day, and the perfect opportunity to indulge your inner bookworm. According to a Huffington Post blog on the occasion, one of the best ways to celebrate is by giving the gift of reading and passing along a favorite book to others who might enjoy it. With that in mind, we asked some Information Builders colleagues for their best “data reads” and below is a sampling of their suggestions: read more.

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IT 40

In(tegrate) the Clouds

MAY 1, 2016

SnapLogic published Eight Data Management Requirements for the Enterprise Data Lake. They are: Storage and Data Formats. Ingest and Delivery. Discovery and Preparation. Transformation and Analytics. Streaming. Scheduling and Workflow. Metadata and Governance. Security. The post originally appeared on ITBusinessEdge as a slide show. The company also recently hosted a webinar on Democratizing the Data Lake with Constellation Research and published 2 whitepapers from Mark Madsen.

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Ms SQL Girl

MAY 19, 2016

As you may already know In-database Analytics (also known as Advanced Analytics) is available in SQL Server 2016. To simplify, “In-database Advanced Analytics”: you can run powerful statistical / predictive modelling (from R) inside SQL Server. Read the official definition here. Check Out SQL Latest Bits. SQL Server 2016 RC3 : this includes SQL Server R Services that you can install.

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Information Builders

MAY 9, 2016

Today is National Book Lover’s Day, and the perfect opportunity to indulge your inner bookworm. According to a Huffington Post blog on the occasion, one of the best ways to celebrate is by giving the gift of reading and passing along a favorite book to others who might enjoy it. With that in mind, we asked some Information Builders colleagues for their best “data reads” and below is a sampling of their suggestions: read more.

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Technology IT 40

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

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Nutanix

MAY 10, 2016

At Nutanix, we love our customers. They are the reason why we innovate and strive to achieve and continuously improve customer satisfaction.

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