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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

Wall Street Journal, 24 December 2007. A 2007 column in the WSJ pointed out that management by objective and total quality management have been replaced by a new trend: management by data. The increasing disruption caused by technology in everything from retail to education to NGOs will defy command and control management.

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Stuff The Internet Says On Scalability For February 8th, 2019

High Scalability

Newzoo : The games market took more than 35 years to grow to a $35 billion business in 2007. Retail investors have to put their money somewhere. This year, that same market is expected to generate $137.9 billion in revenues. In only 11 years, an astounding $100 billion of additional value was created.

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IT Governance Maximises IT Returns

The Agile Manager

The notion that a Brand X watch recently sold for tens of thousands of dollars at auction increases the brand’s retail marketability by suggesting it has investment-grade or heirloom properties. The Price of a Four Star Rating The Wall Street Journal, 6-7 October 2007. Apocalypse No The Wall Street Journal, 27-28 October 2007.

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World’s Top Web Performance Leaders To Watch

Rigor

Author of the Pocket Guide to Web Performance and co-author of Using WebPageTest , Andy is an independent web performance consultant in the UK who has helped many leading retailers, newspapers and financial companies make their sites faster. He is a co-organizer of the London Web Performance meetup.

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The Ever Given is Not a Black Swan Event

The Agile Manager

In the mid-2000s, with global trade growing by leaps and bounds every year, shipping companies opted for larger and larger vessels. The largest of these ships each carry the equivalent of over 10,000 truckloads of goods.

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A Decade of Dynamo: Powering the next wave of high-performance, internet-scale applications

All Things Distributed

The success of our early results with the Dynamo database encouraged us to write Amazon's Dynamo whitepaper and share it at the 2007 ACM Symposium on Operating Systems Principles (SOSP conference), so that others in the industry could benefit. This was the genesis of the Amazon Dynamo database. million requests per second.

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