Tag: optimization

Feed: Domo Blog. Author: Scott Resch. A digitally transformed organization is one that is “alive and awake to everything that is going on around it” and knows how to leverage connections to take advantage of its place within a complex ecosystem.  That is one of the key points made in the inaugural episode of Domo Connects, a podcast that explores matters related to digital transformation and organizational optimization through compelling conversations with some of the brightest minds in business. In the episode, I speak with Peter Sole, Helen Mumford-Sole and Julie Rufo of digital transformation insight provider Mumford Sole Partners ... Read More

Feed: Big Data Made Simple. Author: Haseeb Najam. You have hired an SEO agency for your online business.You are running an outreach campaign.But how are you measuring the ROI of your search marketing activities?ROI (Return on Investment) is one of the most focused areas in marketing and economics, especially since digital marketing activities are one hundred percent measurable ineffectiveness of generating business opportunities. Although ROI is an indicator that is presented as a percentage of the profitability of a business or investment, it is also an element of great importance in the management and optimization of search marketing campaigns.Any business ... Read More

Feed: Puppet.com Blog RSS Feed. Author: ; Everybody talks about how continuous delivery is desirable to deliver products faster, so you can get feedback faster, get to revenue faster, and compete effectively. That said, continuous delivery is not easy. Achieving continuous delivery requires you to focus on your internal processes. Being a skeptical person, I asked myself, "Will focusing on our internal processes really enable us to deliver value to customers, as and when needed?"In fact, we did significantly cut our release cycles. We also found that shortening our release cycles helped us solicit feedback along the way, and build ... Read More

Feed: Databasejournal.com - Feature Database Articles. Author: . Practically every SQL Server Database Administrator operating in an on-premises environment is familiar with Transact-SQL DBCC statements that serve the role of Database Console Commands. However, there are some additional considerations that should be considered when using them in the context of Azure SQL Database deployments. In this article, I provide an overview of their primary characteristics and explore their role in Database-as-a-Service scenarios. While the acronym DBCC was originally derived from the term Database Consistency Checker, this designation has been changed to Database Console Commands, in order to reflect much more ... Read More

Feed: Featured Blog Posts - Data Science Central. Author: Bill Schmarzo. Imagine this scenario: You enter your dentist’s office as a follow-up visit to the 6-month checkup you had last week. You’re nervous because the checkup revealed bleeding in your gums and cracks in your fillings, all things that require your dentist’s repair on this occasion. So, you’re there nervously fidgeting in the lobby waiting for your name to be called, envisioning all sorts of dentistry implements of torture that will soon be inside your mouth. Finally, when your name is called, you’re shown to the room of horrors and ... Read More

Feed: Featured Blog Posts - Data Science Central. Author: Robert R. Tucci. Quantum computers come in 2 varieties, quantum annealers and quantum gate models. So far, DWave is the only company selling quantum annealers. A third type of device is now available from Fujitsu. Fujitsu calls its device a "quantum inspired digital annealer". The Fujitsu device does not have any quantum correlation (quantum entanglement) between separate qubits, so, in that sense, it is not a real qc, and Fujitsu doesn't claim it is, only that it is "quantum inspired". DWave, on the other hand, does claim partial quantum entanglement between ... Read More

Feed: R-bloggers. Author: Douglas Pestana - @DougVegas. Data Scientists and Analysts are starting to overflow their cups with mostly non-value added work at the request of stakeholders. And many don’t have the courage or confidence to say “No” to that. This also applies to many working and business professionals in other verticals and professions. Put simply, you need to build confidence, stop being a wimp, and start saying “No” to pointless work.Data Scientists can become the new decision-makers at companies and should be picking their own value-added projects When a company hires a data science team, the customers of that ... Read More

Feed: Featured Blog Posts - Data Science Central. Author: Vincent Granville. Monday newsletter published by Data Science Central. Previous editions can be found here. The contribution flagged with a + is our selection for the picture of the week. To subscribe, follow this link.   Featured Resources and Technical Contributions  Key Graph Based Shortest Path Algorithms - Part 1: Dijkstra's And Bellman-Ford + Portfolio optimization with Quantum Computing Multi Gigabyte R data.table for Ohio Voter Registration/History Importance of Hyper-parameters in Model development Deep Learning from first principles in Python, R and Octave Docker in 10 minutes Scene-rendering with Google's DeepMind 5 Most Preferred Programming ... Read More

Feed: SAS Blogs. Author: Leo Sadovy. Where in your business process can analytics and AI play a contributing role in enhancing your decision making capability?  At the information interpretation stage.  As a framework for understanding where analytic and AI opportunities may arise, the simple diagram below illustrates the relationships between data, information and knowledge, and how you get from one end to the other.  The key is how you come to understand the arrows (the verbs)  that link the three primary concepts (the nouns). Information is organized data.  The same data can be organized differently to yield different information sets ... Read More

Feed: Big Data Made Simple. Author: Nikhil Bansal. Where the last few decades experienced the wave of mobile-first economy, the present and the upcoming decade denounce something that we call AI-first. Ok, this is nothing but introducing the concept of your very much popular AI in different aspects for all industries. From manufacturing to automotive, healthcare and finance, AI has its wings spread all over. With this, a new experiment done by the AI experts is in the field of SEO. For years, we have known that Google ranks websites based on the relevancy of the content and the one ... Read More