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Structural Evolutions in Data

O'Reilly

Each time, the underlying implementation changed a bit while still staying true to the larger phenomenon of “Analyzing Data for Fun and Profit.” ” They weren’t quite sure what this “data” substance was, but they’d convinced themselves that they had tons of it that they could monetize.

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Data Mining Problems in Retail

Highly Scalable

In this article we are trying to take a more rigorous approach and provide a systematic view of econometric models and objective functions that can leverage data analysis to make more automated decisions. Gallien, 2012. Duhigg, 2012. Zhang, 2012. were a subject of intensive research over the last century, if not longer.

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