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Web Performance Bookshelf

Rigor

Take, for example, The Web Almanac , the golden collection of Big Data combined with the collective intelligence from most of the authors listed below, brilliantly spearheaded by Google’s @rick_viscomi. ” – Andy King, 2003. Fail, and you can kiss your customers and profits goodbye.” Time is Money.

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Rethinking the 'production' of data

All Things Distributed

How companies can use ideas from mass production to create business with data. That was the provocative thesis of a much-talked-about article from 2003 in the Harvard Business Review by the US publicist Nicolas Carr. Marketers use big data and artificial intelligence to find out more about the future needs of their customers.

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Data Mining Problems in Retail

Highly Scalable

More specifically, the article was inspired by three major case studies from Albert Heijn [KOK07], the largest supermarket chain in the Netherlands, Zara [CA12], an international apparel retailer, and RueLaLa [JH14], an innovative online fashion retailer. Prairie, 2003. PZ07] Content-based Recommendation Systems, M. Pazzani, D.

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