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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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Ten years of page bloat: What have we learned?

Speed Curve

And if that already wasn’t enough, the number of images on a page has been linked to lower conversion rates on retail sites. These numbers should not be taken as a benchmark for your own site. The median page today serves 25 images, compared to 42 images back in 2012. More on that later.). Not all pages are getting bigger.

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Is Intel Doomed in the Server CPU Space?

SQL Performance

This situation was so bad that Microsoft offered a 25% discount on the cost of SQL Server processor core licenses for SQL Server 2012 and SQL Server 2014, if you ran on qualifying AMD Opteron processors with six or more cores. I am optimistic that they will have higher single-threaded CPU performance than Intel Cascade Lake-SP processors.

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