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Web Performance Bookshelf

Rigor

How to pioneer new metrics and create a culture of performance. Information Architecture. 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. You only have a few seconds to get compelling content onto the screen. Time is Money.

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The Surprising Effectiveness of Non-Overlapping, Sensitivity-Based Performance Models

John McCalpin

The presentation discusses a family of simple performance models that I developed over the last 20 years — originally in support of processor and system design at SGI (1996-1999), IBM (1999-2005), and AMD (2006-2008), but more recently in support of system procurements at The Texas Advanced Computing Center (TACC) (2009-present).

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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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