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., Experiments, Parameters and Models At Youtube, the relationships between system parameters and metrics often seem simple — straight-line models sometimes fit our data well.

Experimentation 52

Experimentation Optimization Uncertainty Metrics 52

Smart Data Collective

JANUARY 19, 2023

Reasons for Cost Optimization Cost optimization is an important part of any organization’s DevOps strategy. By optimizing costs, organizations can maximize their profits and keep up with the ever-changing business landscape. But what are some of the reasons why DevOps teams should consider cost optimization?

Optimization 119

Optimization Cost-Benefit Software Measurement 119

CIO Business Intelligence

JULY 23, 2023

Optimization also rose to the top of IT leaders’ lists: 67% measure success within their IT organization by better optimizing resources. Optimizing IT resources—namely infrastructure, processes, and people—fuels digital transformation and modernization, which drives businesses to keep pace in today’s tough economy.

Optimization 95

Optimization IT Digital Transformation Uncertainty 95

O'Reilly on Data

JUNE 19, 2019

A look at the landscape of tools for building and deploying robust, production-ready machine learning models. We are also beginning to see researchers share sample code written in popular open source libraries, and some even share pre-trained models. Model development. Model governance. Source: Ben Lorica.

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Modeling Machine Learning Testing Metrics 195

Occam's Razor

SEPTEMBER 15, 2011

Winners, well before they think data or tool, have a well structured Digital Marketing & Measurement Model. This article guides you in understanding the value of the Digital Marketing & Measurement Model (notice the repeated emphasis on Marketing, not just Measurement), and how to create one for yourself.

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Measurement Marketing Modeling Key Performance Indicator 166

IBM Big Data Hub

MAY 17, 2024

Cloud maturity models are a useful tool for addressing these concerns, grounding organizational cloud strategy and proceeding confidently in cloud adoption with a plan. Cloud maturity models (or CMMs) are frameworks for evaluating an organization’s cloud adoption readiness on both a macro and individual service level.

Modeling 96

Modeling Cost-Benefit Optimization Digital Transformation 96

erwin

JUNE 27, 2019

The need for an effective data modeling tool is more significant than ever. For decades, data modeling has provided the optimal way to design and deploy new relational databases with high-quality data sources and support application development. There’s an expression: measure twice, cut once.

Measurement 81

Measurement Modeling Unstructured Data Metadata 81

CIO Business Intelligence

NOVEMBER 19, 2024

Generative AI (GenAI) is rapidly emerging as a game changer for enterprises, but turning its potential into measurable value remains a significant challenge. Data privacy and compliance issues Failing: Mismanagement of internal data with external models can lead to privacy breaches and non-compliance with regulations.

Consulting 126

Consulting Cost-Benefit Experimentation Optimization 126

IBM Big Data Hub

JULY 5, 2023

However, cloud services costs can be higher than anticipated, so monitoring and optimizing your cloud spend is critical. Cloud cost optimization combines strategies, techniques, best practices and tools to help reduce cloud costs, find the most cost-effective way to run your applications in the cloud environment, and maximize business value.

Optimization 63

Optimization Forecasting ROI Metrics 63

CIO Business Intelligence

NOVEMBER 18, 2022

To optimize cloud investments, C-level executives are increasingly adopting cloud financial operations (FinOps). In this article, I’ll explore common cloud optimization and FinOps challenges and strategies for overcoming them. Then they must choose a financial model, whether an even split, fixed, or proportional model.

Optimization 91

Optimization KPI Key Performance Indicator Cost-Benefit 91

IBM Big Data Hub

MARCH 6, 2024

The hybrid model allows organizations to gradually transition to the cloud, managing risks associated with a complete migration while benefiting from cloud scalability and flexibility. Re-platforming With a re-platforming migration, some adjustments or optimizations are made to the applications before moving them to the cloud.

Optimization 73

Optimization Strategy Cost-Benefit Testing 73

CIO Business Intelligence

NOVEMBER 7, 2024

As digital transformation becomes a critical driver of business success, many organizations still measure CIO performance based on traditional IT values rather than transformative outcomes. This creates a disconnect between the strategic role that CIOs are increasingly expected to play and how their success is measured.

Digital Transformation 127

Digital Transformation Metrics Measurement Key Performance Indicator 127

Smart Data Collective

FEBRUARY 9, 2022

Luckily, there are a few analytics optimization strategies you can use to make life easy on your end. Helps you to determine areas of abnormal losses and profits to optimize your trading algorithm. Enables animation and object modeling of 3D charts for better analysis and testing.

Visualization 134

Visualization Optimization Analytics Testing 134

CIO Business Intelligence

JULY 24, 2024

Large language models (LLMs) are hard to beat when it comes to instantly parsing reams of publicly available data to generate responses to general knowledge queries. Moreover, challenges around data privacy and recognition of intellectual property often require a level of transparency that simply does not exist in many off-the-shelf models.

Modeling 75

Modeling Insurance Cost-Benefit Unstructured Data 75

IBM Big Data Hub

JULY 25, 2023

Smart grids turn this model on its head. This software, and the insights it provides, can help providers predict demand patterns, identify potential issues and optimize the distribution network. Phasor measurement units (PMUs) monitor electrical waves on the electricity grid using a common time source for synchronization.

Optimization 56

Optimization Technology Measurement Cost-Benefit 56

IBM Big Data Hub

NOVEMBER 6, 2023

AI and API security Among existing API security measures, AI has emerged as a new — and potentially powerful — tool for fortifying APIs. AI technologies can also enable automated threat modeling. Using historical API data, AI can build threat models to predict vulnerabilities and threats before bad actors can exploit them.

Optimization 113

Optimization Testing Software Risk 113

Cloudera

DECEMBER 21, 2023

Some are returning errors that are difficult to find—and if you’re missing KPIs you have to fix, optimize, and measure every bit of code, which can take a considerable amount of time and trial and error. Let’s say that the list of stores by sales just isn’t helping us understand our performance measures quite right.

Optimization 67

Optimization Sales Data Warehouse Measurement 67

CIO Business Intelligence

OCTOBER 29, 2024

Training a single AI model emits as much as five average cars over their lifetimes. EA’s look at the entire “estate” with an enterprise-wide view and being inclusive in their approach to solutioning business asks while acknowledging the importance of taking sustainability measures and responsible AI practices into account.

Enterprise 119

Enterprise Cost-Benefit Metrics Strategy 119

Jedox

JUNE 24, 2021

The description of the sales funnel is often used: individual stages of the sales process enable the measurement of key figures from the first contact to the conclusion with a signed contract or product purchased. Maximizing business value through improved collaboration is key to long-term optimization of marketing and sales operations.

Sales 98

Sales Marketing Optimization Metrics 98

Cloudera

MARCH 2, 2022

You can read previous blog posts on Impala’s performance and querying techniques here – “ New Multithreading Model for Apache Impala ”, “ Keeping Small Queries Fast – Short query optimizations in Apache Impala ” and “ Faster Performance for Selective Queries ”. . Analytical SQL workloads use aggregates and joins heavily.

Data Warehouse 89

Data Warehouse Optimization Analytics Sales 89

Jedox

NOVEMBER 23, 2021

The last blog post from our guest authors at smartPM.solutions was about S&OP maturity and the classification of your current S&OP situation according to the 5-stage Gartner S&OP Maturity Model. 5 steps to optimize S&OP performance. Step 1 – Product portfolio optimization based on strategic company goals.

Optimization 76

Optimization Forecasting Sales Dashboards 76

DataRobot Blog

APRIL 15, 2022

There is a need to optimize supply to meet demand. Although sunlight can seem to be a simple term, the solar radiation available is measured in terms of irradiance, specifically Direct Normal Irradiance, Diffuse Horizontal Irradiance, and Global Horizontal Irradiance. Courtesy: University of Oregon. Courtesy: NSRDB.

Forecasting 52

Forecasting Optimization Measurement Machine Learning 52

Timo Elliott

FEBRUARY 8, 2023

New cloud platform technologies have unleashed new opportunities for business model innovation. With the Frischluftmanager, we can offer our customers those filters that optimize their energy needs as well as provide a total cost analysis. In addition, the majority of filter changes are performed according to fixed change intervals.

Modeling 98

Modeling Cost-Benefit Optimization Machine Learning 98

Cloudera

NOVEMBER 13, 2020

Data science experiment result and performance analysis, for example, calculating model lift. Impala Optimizations for Small Queries. We’ll discuss the various phases Impala takes a query through and how small query optimizations are incorporated into the design of each phase. Query Planner Design.

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Optimization Metadata Statistics Cost-Benefit 143

CIO Business Intelligence

OCTOBER 24, 2024

Take for instance large language models (LLMs) for GenAI. Businesses will need to invest in hardware and infrastructure that are optimized for AI and this may incur significant costs. Contextualizing patterns and identifying potential threats can minimize alert fatigue and optimize the use of resources.

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Risk Measurement Optimization Machine Learning 128

Cloudera

OCTOBER 20, 2021

What are the key climate risk measurements and impacts? How do institutions protect and optimize their balance sheets and portfolios? When it comes to measuring climate risk, generating scenarios will be a critical tactic for financial institutions and asset managers. A Partnership in Climate Risk Modelling.

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Risk Modeling Risk Management Measurement 79

KDnuggets

SEPTEMBER 20, 2022

When building and optimizing your classification model, measuring how accurately it predicts your expected outcome is crucial. That's where these additional performance evaluations come into play to help tease out more meaning from your model.

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David Menninger's Analyst Perspectives

NOVEMBER 5, 2024

We have seen tremendous innovation and expansion of the available technologies for running centers and optimizing the performance of the human labor pool, as well as an explosion of tools built to automate customer interactions. All contact centers are facing dramatic changes in how they structure the labor component of operations.

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ROI Interactive Software Measurement 130

DataRobot

FEBRUARY 10, 2021

Even if all the code runs and the model seems to be spitting out reasonable answers, it’s possible for a model to encode fundamental data science mistakes that invalidate its results. These errors might seem small, but the effects can be disastrous when the model is used to make decisions in the real world.

Modeling 98

Modeling Deep Learning Machine Learning Metrics 98

CIO Business Intelligence

AUGUST 9, 2024

Twenty-nine percent of 644 executives at companies in the US, Germany, and the UK said they were already using gen AI, and it was more widespread than other AI-related technologies, such as optimization algorithms, rule-based systems, natural language processing, and other types of ML. A balance between privacy and utility is needed.

Risk 138

Risk Measurement Data Lake Modeling 138

CIO Business Intelligence

SEPTEMBER 26, 2024

Many developers say AI coding assistants make them more productive, but a recent study set forth to measure their output and found no significant gains. The study measured pull request (PR) cycle time, or the time to merge code into a repository, and PR throughput, the number of pull requests merged.

Measurement 145

Measurement Software Testing Data-driven 145

Domino Data Lab

MARCH 3, 2021

It’s often stated that nothing changes inside an enterprise because you’ve built a model. In some cases, data science does generate models directly to revenue, such as a contextual deal engine that targets people with offers that they can instantly redeem. But what about good decisions?

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Metrics Modeling Data Science Sales 93

David Menninger's Analyst Perspectives

OCTOBER 29, 2024

And apps related to measuring quality, coaching, training and other in-center actions. For example, chatbots and virtual assistants that raise the containment rate affect the content and quantity of interactions that ultimately reach agents, changing the nature of the skills they need and the key performance indicators that measure success.

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Key Performance Indicator Cost-Benefit Interactive Measurement 130

CIO Business Intelligence

SEPTEMBER 26, 2024

That’s because significant challenges persist in leveraging GenAI’s large language models (LLMs). With these constraints, they must cautiously tread the GenAI line while developing measured strategies for maximizing returns. For instance, organizations can implement ideal code examples and preferred processes into code-writing models.

Enterprise 130

Enterprise Data-driven Risk Testing 130

CIO Business Intelligence

NOVEMBER 4, 2024

However, enterprise cloud computing still faces similar challenges in achieving efficiency and simplicity, particularly in managing diverse cloud resources and optimizing data management. AI models rely on vast datasets across various locations, demanding AI-ready infrastructure that’s easy to implement across core and edge.

Finance 89

Finance Sales Reporting Optimization 89

Smart Data Collective

MARCH 14, 2022

Data analytics technology is becoming a more important aspect of business models in all industries. Data Analytics is an Invaluable Part of SaaS Revenue Optimization. In this article, we will cover what SaaS sales is, the SaaS cycle, choosing strategies and models, and how to measure the success of SaaS sales.

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Modeling Analytics Key Performance Indicator Sales 105

Occam's Razor

JULY 22, 2013

Most of the frameworks we have also don't optimally capture the complexity of digital marketing and measurement. We (oh how I hate this) apply irrational and "narrow-view" measurement strategies toward understanding what is successful and what's not. Then there is Agile for engineering.

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Measurement Marketing Key Performance Indicator Metrics 164