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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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Conserve or Invest?

The Agile Manager

In the years leading up to 2000, there was aggressive spend on technology: insulation against fears of the Y2K bug (legacy software and hardware with time functions that wouldn't properly roll over to 01/01/2000) as well as development of new business and consumer technology to exploit what was then nascent internet technology.

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Capitalizing Tech in a Cloud / SaaS / Continuous Delivery World

The Agile Manager

First, Cloud, SaaS and BYOD change software and infrastructure from capital investments to rent expenses. Second, Continuous Delivery - deploying software hourly or daily instead of monthly or quarterly - blurs the lines among traditional development stages. retailers) and asset-heavy finance companies (e.g.,

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World’s Top Web Performance Leaders To Watch

Rigor

Rick is a software engineer on the Google Chrome team, “leading an effort to make the web just work for developers.” He has also hosted the NY Web Performance Meetup, which boasts over 5,000 members, since 2009. Rick Byers. Rick Byers. That’s right – NY WebPerf is 10 years old! Patrick Hamann. Patrick Hamann.

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The Management Revolution that Never Happened

The Agile Manager

Think about policy renewal operations at insurance companies, or specialized software developers working in silos: they are information workers, but they are on an information assembly line, doing piecework and passing it onto the next person. "[Big The appetite for operational data has increased significantly.