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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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Understanding the Importance of 5 Nines Availability

IO River

one of the world's largest online retailers, Amazon relies heavily on its website and digital infrastructure to facilitate sales and generate revenue. In 2013, Amazon experienced a brief outage that lasted approximately 30 minutes. By knowing how to calculate the availability of a service or system, we can understand its reliability.

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Understanding the Importance of 5 Nines Availability

IO River

one of the world's largest online retailers, Amazon relies heavily on its website and digital infrastructure to facilitate sales and generate revenue. In 2013, Amazon experienced a brief outage that lasted approximately 30 minutes. By knowing how to calculate the availability of a service or system, we can understand its reliability.

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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. It is very fast for its relatively low $400 USD retail price. Admittedly, these were the results I was most excited to see: how does an ASUS laptop from 2013 with Windows 10 and an Ivy Bridge i5 of the day handle this stuff? Less work equals less processing time.

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The Management Revolution that Never Happened

The Agile Manager

Technocracy was, too: "best practice" was derived from people performing narrowly defined tasks in rigid processes that yielded poor quality products at a high cost. Microcomputing was expected to change information processing patterns of businesses, enabling better analysis and decision support at lower levels of the organization.