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The Good and the Bad of Apache Kafka Streaming Platform

Altexsoft

It offers high throughput, low latency, and scalability that meets the requirements of Big Data. The technology was written in Java and Scala in LinkedIn to solve the internal problem of managing continuous data flows. What does the high-performance data project have to do with the real Franz Kafka’s heritage?

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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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Process Mining Explained: Techniques, Applications, and Challenges

Altexsoft

an also be described as a part of business process management (BPM) that applies data science (with its data mining and machine learning techniques) to dig into the records of the company’s software, get the understanding of its processes performance, and support optimization activities. What is process mining? Process mining ?an

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Modeling conversion rates using Weibull and gamma distributions

Erik Bernhardsson

This is a blog post originally featured on the Better engineering blog. If you want to link to this article or share it, please go to the original post URL ! Separately, I’m sorry it’s been so long with no posts on this blog. Between kids, moving, and being a startup CTO, I’ve been busy. Lots of companies need to analyze conversion rates.

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Fleet Maintenance Software: Technology Behind Preventive and Predictive Vehicle Servicing

Altexsoft

Taking good care of your fleet assets pays off by prolonging their lifecycle, increasing efficiency, and reducing the probability of failures. Predictive maintenance (PdM) involves constant monitoring of your equipment condition and conducting repairs only when bad trends are detected – but before breakdowns occur.

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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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Supply Chain Control Tower: Enhancing Visibility and Resilience

Altexsoft

Leading executives focus on building resilient and intelligent supply chains that can withstand the turmoil due to data-based proactive decisions. “Control towers are the artificial intelligence (AI) of supply chain. Everyone wants to have it, but nobody quite knows how it works.” Christian Titze, vice president analyst at Gartner.