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

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Conserve or Invest?

The Agile Manager

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.

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World’s Top Web Performance Leaders To Watch

Rigor

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.