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Data Mining Problems in Retail

Highly Scalable

This approach can be expressed in more formal way by the following equation: where is the data available for analysis, is the space of a retailer’s actions and decisions, is an econometric model defined as a function of actions and data, and is the optimal strategy. RR10] Recommender Systems Handbook, F. Bergstrom, and J.

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What Is Hyperautomation?

O'Reilly

However, one thing should be obvious: to fill a prescription, you need to access many different kinds of data, in many different databases. What will cause those trends to end, and what strategies will the business need to adopt? New strategies are possible because you have information that you’ve never had before.

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Smashing Podcast Episode 42 With Jeff Smith: What Is DevOps?

Smashing Magazine

Automated database failovers are a little scary because you don’t do them that often. So if you’re using their database container or technology, guess what? Jeff: And then from there, diving into any of the DevOps handbook. I’m going to kick myself for saying this, but the Google SRE Handbook was another great place to look.

DevOps 83