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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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The Management Revolution that Never Happened

The Agile Manager

Microcomputers improved the efficiency of data collection and made it easy to consolidate operational data. Today (September 2013), they're paying predictable business operations. The increasing disruption caused by technology in everything from retail to education to NGOs will defy command and control management.

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Taking DynamoDB beyond Key-Value: Now with Faster, More Flexible, More Powerful Query Capabilities

All Things Distributed

You saw the first iteration in April 2013 with the launch of Local Secondary Indexes (LSI). Global secondary indexes allow you to efficiently query over the whole DynamoDB table, not just within a partition as local secondary indexes, using any attributes (columns), even as the DynamoDB table horizontally scales to accommodate your needs.

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radEventListener: a Tale of Client-side Framework Performance

CSS - Tricks

A ASUS X550CC laptop from 2013 running Windows 10 on Chrome 83. React does alright here, but Preact seems to handle event listeners a bit more efficiently. It is very fast for its relatively low $400 USD retail price. Instead, regular ol’ event listeners provide the mobile nav functionality on the client. Startup time.