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Giving more tools to software engineers: the reorganization of the factory

Erik Bernhardsson

I had my first job as a software engineer in 1999, and in the last two decades I've seen software engineering changing in ways that have made us orders of magnitude more productive. Mediocre software exists because someone wasn't able to hire better engineers, or they didn't have time, or whatever.

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Interpreting predictive models with Skater: Unboxing model opacity

O'Reilly Media - Data

Data Scientist Cathy O’Neil has recently written an entire book filled with examples of poor interpretability as a dire warning of the potential social carnage from misunderstood models—e.g., There is also a trade off in balancing a model’s interpretability and its performance.

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How to Successfully Implement HR Analytics and People Analytics in a Company

Altexsoft

Mark Huselid and Dana Minbaeva in Big Data and HRM call these measures the understanding of the workforce quality. The day may come when a seasoned professional tells you or your colleague about their plan to leave the company in a month. This situation isn’t extraordinary: managers and HR specialists of any organization have been there.

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How Retailers Use Artificial Intelligence to Innovate Customer Experience and Enhance Operations

Altexsoft

For this article, we discussed current and potential applications of AI in retail, as well as the state of the industry in general, including factors that drive adoption of cognitive technologies. Physical stores still have a lion’s share of sales, but the tendency of the growing demand for online experiences shouldn’t be ignored.

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Supply Chain Analytics: Opportunities in Data Analysis and Business Intelligence

Altexsoft

diversity of sales channels, complex structure resulting in siloed data and lack of visibility. These challenges can be addressed by intelligent management supported by data analytics and business intelligence (BI) that allow for getting insights from available data and making data-informed decisions to support company development.

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The Good and the Bad of Apache Kafka Streaming Platform

Altexsoft

Similar to Google in web browsing and Photoshop in image processing, it became a gold standard in data streaming, preferred by 70 percent of Fortune 500 companies. In this article, we’ll explain why businesses choose Kafka and what problems they face when using it. process data in real time and run streaming analytics.

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Supporting Diverse ML Systems at Netflix

Netflix Tech

Berg , Romain Cledat , Kayla Seeley , Shashank Srikanth , Chaoying Wang , Darin Yu Netflix uses data science and machine learning across all facets of the company, powering a wide range of business applications from our internal infrastructure and content demand modeling to media understanding.

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