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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 Ever Given is Not a Black Swan Event

The Agile Manager

Though supremely efficient at sea, Emma and the even larger ships that followed in her wake became a nightmare. 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. The systemic fragility was as plain as day.

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The Management Revolution that Never Happened

The Agile Manager

Big companies] create all these systems and processes - and then end up with a very small percentage of people who are supposed to solve complex problems, while the other 98% of people just execute." Microcomputers improved the efficiency of data collection and made it easy to consolidate operational data. What does all this mean?