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.

Social Media 52

Social Media Innovation Internet Internet 52

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. We describe the problems one by one in separate sections.

Retail 152

Retail C++ Analytics Metrics 152

The Agile Manager

JANUARY 31, 2020

Twined with the radical reduction of information asymmetry (particularly with regard to product price data), it stands to reason that there has been significant productivity growth in western economies: supply chains have never been so optimized, retail and wholesale transactions so price-fair and friction-free.

Energy 52

Energy Government Entertainment Transportation 52

SQL Performance

JULY 16, 2019

From 2007 until 2016, Intel was able to successfully execute their Tick-Tock release strategy, where they would introduce a new processor microarchitecture roughly every two years (a Tock release). Now, I am advising people to strongly consider AMD for SQL Server workloads as the AMD EPYC "Rome" processors are released in Q3 of 2019.

Servers 46

Servers Hardware Architecture Retail 46