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What is predictive analytics? Transforming data into future insights

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Such models enable the assessment of either the promise or risk presented by a particular set of conditions, guiding informed decision-making across various categories of supply chain and procurement events. Clustering algorithms, for example, are well suited for customer segmentation, community detection, and other social-related tasks.

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How Search Engines Work: A Guide to Search Engine Algorithms

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They take masses of information on a website, break it down, and make decisions on how well it answers a specific query. To discover, categorize, and rank the billions of websites that make up the internet, search engines employ sophisticated algorithms that make decisions on the quality and relevancy of any page.

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Feeding America turns to data to feed the hungry

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One organization, Feeding America, the country’s largest domestic hunger relief organization, is turning to information technology to help, having hired three years ago its first IT chief to transform how its network of 200 food banks serve the food insecure. MealConnect’s algorithm helps optimize transportation routes.

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How IT leaders are driving new revenue

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Sandwich-focused restaurant franchise Subway has some 37,000 locations worldwide, each of which faces a unique combination of factors, such as local competition and customer demographics, that impact sales and profitability. For Herlihy, identifying ways to drive revenue growth is all in a day’s work for modern tech execs. “IT

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10 Big Data Examples Showing The Great Value of Smart Analytics In Real Life At Restaurants, Bars, and Casinos

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“You can have data without information, but you cannot have information without data.” – Daniel Keys Moran. With the streaming industry becoming more and more competitive, the subscription-based company uses all this information to their advantage to offer targeted experiences to their customers. What’s the motive?

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Sysco’s recipe for growth centers on IT

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We were one of the most impacted industries in the pandemic economy,” says Peck, who joined Sysco as EVP and chief information and digital officer in December 2020. Large language models allow you to gobble up more data and scan through much more information, whether it’s in another cloud or on premise.

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Big Data Drives Office Productivity into Overdrive

Smart Data Collective

With regards to big data in back offices, the large amount of information that various applications can manage makes them an essential tool for improving productivity. Similar tools can offer superior lighting to keep the office illuminated in a way that maximizes employee engagement by adjusting with machine learning algorithms.