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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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IT Governance Maximises IT Returns

The Agile Manager

That is, a team can work in such a way that it is less likely to cause problems for itself, by e.g., writing unit tests, having continuous integration, developing to finely grained statements of business functionality, embedding QA in the development team, and so forth. Doing these isn’t the same as increasing the probability of success.

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

All Things Distributed

Developers can build, test, and deploy chatbots directly from the AWS Management Console. The concept has been explored by many popular science fiction movies and TV shows, such as "2001: A Space Odyssey" with HAL-9000 or the Star Trek computer and Commander Data, which defined the perception of computer-generated speech.

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