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Web Performance Bookshelf

Rigor

How to pioneer new metrics and create a culture of performance. In her book, Lara Hogan helps you approach projects with page speed in mind, showing you how to test and benchmark which design choices are most critical. Time is Money. This book is about performance problems and the various technologies created to fight them.

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World’s Top Web Performance Leaders To Watch

Rigor

All together, she has written 23 books as a solo or co-author since 2002. Developers representing hundreds of companies work together at these meetups to become masters in performance metrics and the latest trends in measuring site speed.) Rachel is also one of the people behind Perch , a PHP content management system (CMS).

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Data Mining Problems in Retail

Highly Scalable

The basic idea of the framework is to use an economic metric such as gross margin as the optimization objective and consider it a function of possible retailer’s actions such as marketing campaigns or assortment adjustments. Moreover, gross margin is not the only performance metric that is important for retailers. The model (2.1)

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