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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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Dutch Enterprises and The Cloud

All Things Distributed

To reach those goals, Shell in 2010 began using AWS. Unilever – Unilever R&D program intended to accelerate the company’s scientific progress through improved access to global information. Royal Dutch Shell – is one of the world’s largest companies. *In These sensors create massive amounts of geological data.

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