Highly Scalable

MARCH 10, 2015

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.

Retail 152

Retail C++ Analytics Metrics 152

Speed Curve

JUNE 14, 2021

Then in 2008, while I was helping an educational publisher launch their elearning platform (and running into the familiar challenges of how do you build and deliver rich content over the internet) I came across Steve Souders’s first book, High Performance Web Sites. I think that was the point I became hooked!

Retail 52

Retail Internet Internet Education 52

The Agile Manager

MARCH 31, 2021

Shippers, facing excessive capacity after the financial crisis of 2008, either went out of business, merged, or did deals to fill their ships to capacity. Optimization of the oceangoing containership fleet came at the cost of the efficiency of the rest of the supply chain into which it was integrated. This is not a black swan event.

Transportation 52

Transportation Retail Traffic Efficiency 52

The Agile Manager

APRIL 30, 2020

Both the financial and real economies have suffered quite a few shocks in the last 20 years: the dot-com bubble bursting (2000); September 11 (2001); the Great Recession (2008); and today in 2020 the COVID-19 crisis is wreaking economic havoc. It was much different in 2008. Opportunity fundamentals III: speculative.

Social Media 52

Social Media Innovation Internet Internet 52