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Data Mining Problems in Retail

Highly Scalable

Retail is one of the most important business domains for data science and data mining applications because of its prolific data and numerous optimization problems such as optimal prices, discounts, recommendations, and stock levels that can be solved using data analysis methods. However, many of these models are highly parametric (i.e.

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The Management Revolution that Never Happened

The Agile Manager

Technocracy was, too: "best practice" was derived from people performing narrowly defined tasks in rigid processes that yielded poor quality products at a high cost. Frederick Taylor defined and measured performance down to the task level. In the 1980s, it seemed we were on the cusp of a revolution in management.

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IT Governance Maximises IT Returns

The Agile Manager

This wording is intentional: how work is performed reduces the probability of failure. We are more tolerant to external risk factors because we don’t accumulate process debt or technical debt that makes it difficult for us to absorb risk. Do you have a complete set of process metrics established with your suppliers?

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Bringing the Magic of Amazon AI and Alexa to Apps on AWS.

All Things Distributed

There are many more application areas where we use ML extensively: search, autonomous drones, robotics in fulfillment centers, text processing and speech recognition (such as in Alexa) etc. And this process must be repeated for every object, face, voice, and language feature in an application.

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