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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. While working on my PhD in political science, I realized my curiosity was always more piqued by methodological coursework, which led me to take as many stats/data science courses as I could.

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Intelligent, context-aware AI analytics for all your custom metrics

Dynatrace

A topological link to an entity only makes sense, of course, if the measurement that’s sent to Dynatrace has a semantic relationship to that entity. Choose your monitoring strategy (i.e., Let’s take the example of a globally distributed retailer that collects revenue measurements every minute for all its shops worldwide.

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Driving Bandwidth Cost Down for AWS Customers. - All Things.

All Things Distributed

For Amazon retail, some of those dimensions are low pricing, large catalog, fast shipping, and convenience. For example, when our retail customers contributed to create larger economies of scale for Amazon.com, we used the savings to lower pricing such that our customers could also benefit.

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Strategy

The Agile Manager

A few months ago I was asked to review a product strategy a team had put together. I had to give them the unfortunate feedback that what they had created was a document with a lot of words, but those words did not articulate a strategy. There is a formula for articulating strategy. The actions must be, well, actionable.

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How companies can become magnets for digital talent

All Things Distributed

And these talents are by no means coveted only by companies that always had a digital business model to begin with; suppliers to the automotive industry, financial services companies, and retailers also, urgently need product managers, and technical staff who can quickly make their organizations digitally attractive to their customers.

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Are Imposter Domains Re-Publishing Your Website?

Smashing Magazine

For example, someone might web scrape all the product pages of a competitor’s retail site to harvest information about products being offered and current pricing to try to gain a competitive edge. And of course, scrapers could scrape your site to look for security vulnerabilities or exposed contact or sales lead details. Ad Scraping.

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Innovation Versus Control

The Agile Manager

Firms in industries ranging from financial services to retail pharmacy to fast food aspire to be "platform companies." The sooner we reach the inflection point where a body of feedback confirms or contradicts a strategic decision, the more quickly we can move on to the next phase of our strategy, or change course.