
Technology is everywhere and our lives are becoming more connected to one another than ever. One of the most popular ways to stay connected is through social media. A quick Internet search reveals that every smartphone user uses at least one social media application (Instagram, Facebook, Twitter, Tumblr, LinkedIn, Snapchat). Technology continues to advance rapidly and with it comes an increase in the amount of time people spend online.
Read more ...The book begins with an overview of decision trees and discusses how decision trees are related to other concepts such as decision theory, optimization, and statistical inference. The author then explores the use of decision trees in data mining tasks and describes how these techniques complement and supplement other business intelligence applications, such as dimensional cubes (also called OLAP cubes) and data mining approaches, such as regression, cluster analysis, and neural networks. The author then demonstrates how decision trees can be used to solve real-business problems by applying them to scenarios in manufacturing, sales forecasting, CRM applications and marketing analytics.
Read more ...Finding out if your startup has product-market fit — that is, if you have validated that there’s a market for your product and people will pay money for it — sounds like something you have to do later in the process, when your business is already well on its way. But finding out whether your startup has PMF is important because it means you can justify investing resources during the next stage of growth.
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