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

The Agile Manager

APRIL 30, 2020

Yet while initially pro-cyclical, the tech economy was counter-cyclical by Q2 2009: that is, while the financial and real economies floundered, the tech economy was in full recovery before the first half of 2009 was over. Everything cratered, including tech, as banks - which had employed large numbers of tech people - laid them off.

Social Media 52

Social Media Innovation Internet Internet 52

The Agile Manager

MAY 31, 2020

It isn't difficult to imagine the DIY retailers lobbying congress to create legislation that allows employees to set aside up to x-thousand-dollars of annual income as tax exempt for use on home improvement.

Airlines 52

Airlines Government Hardware Technology 52

The Agile Manager

SEPTEMBER 30, 2013

This has happened through equity buybacks (in 2005-8 this was usually funded with debt, since 2009 it's just as likely to be funded with excess cash flow) and dual-class share structures (Groupon, Facebook, News Corp, etc.) In the past decade, corporate ownership has been concentrated in fewer and fewer hands.

Education 45

Education Best Practices Retail Network 45

Rigor

SEPTEMBER 11, 2019

He has also hosted the NY Web Performance Meetup, which boasts over 5,000 members, since 2009. 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.

Performance 89

Performance Education Google Website 89

The Agile Manager

SEPTEMBER 30, 2015

retailers) and asset-heavy finance companies (e.g., Development labor has commanded a premium price for many years now - it's been counter-cyclical since 2009, rising while labor costs in the broader economy stagnated or sank. Well, we don't know. For one thing, we're not really there yet. CFOs don't have a high tolerance for this.

Cloud 40

Cloud Retail Hardware Software 40