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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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How multicloud observability boosts cloud performance at Tractor Supply Co.

Dynatrace

Rural lifestyle retail giant Tractor Supply Co. Rural lifestyle retail giant Tractor Supply Co. discussed the 85-year-old retailer’s cloud migration journey and the importance of multicloud observability at Dynatrace Perform 2023. We also couldn’t compromise on performance and availability.”

Cloud 176
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A Day in the Life of an Experimentation and Causal Inference Scientist @ Netflix

The Netflix TechBlog

We worked in different industries before joining Netflix, including tech, entertainment, retail, science policy, and research. Working on my PhD, I was using optimization techniques to design radiotherapy fractionation schemes to improve the results of clinical practices. My academic credentials definitely helped on the technical side.

Analytics 207
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Nines are not enough: meaningful metrics for clouds

The Morning Paper

” These are SLOs that inform a customer’s application design, and failure to meet them may result in invalidated design assumptions — which doesn’t generally turn out well! Or a system availability SLO, for availability seen by the end user, may well depend on the user carefully exploiting the available redundancy.

Metrics 79
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What Is Hyperautomation?

O'Reilly

So we really can’t talk about automating any significant task without seeing it as a non-trivial data integration project: matching IDs, reconciling slightly different definitions of database columns, de-duping, named entity recognition , all of that fun stuff. The data available to our retail business is much more limited.

Games 114
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Cloud Adoption in 2020

O'Reilly

A strict definition of “cloud” must also include software-as-a-service (SaaS) and platform-as-a-service (PaaS) offerings of all kinds—including email (Google G Suite email; Microsoft Exchange Online), office productivity suites (Google Docs and Sheets; Microsoft Office 365), and similar offerings.

Cloud 141
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Knowledge Versus Wage Work in Software Development

The Agile Manager

The economics of this arrangement favor the few who design over the many who build. For example, a retailer contracts with a consulting firm to develop custom software, but the retail firm assumes responsibility for the maintenance and evolution of the asset once delivered.