Before the popularization of statistics, which dates back to the 1980s (later for data science), companies rarely had computers. As a result, they navigated by sight and made decisions mostly based on intuition and experience. Simplifying, companies were based on people, calculators and printers, not on the data. I’ll immediately make a clarification: obviously …
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Those who are managers know that there are various ways to get an idea of the timing and cost of a project. Those who manage IT projects will be more familiar with agile methodology. I became familiar with agile methodology in a previous experience. In calls you would create a story, e.g., “the user wants …
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There are various ways to represent a data stack, anatomically speaking. Texturally, I like docker compose, a feature of docker that allows you to attach various services together like LEGOs. Clearly it is not always convenient to have all the components of the enterprise data stack via docker. You will see the example of n8n, …
When you have hardware limitations on the enterprise server, that is, of number of CPUs, or computational units, RAM and hard disk, you are left with only software or/and organizational choices . Kind of like when you want to cover as many stops as possible depending on the bus fleet and a reasonable waiting time. …
Statistical models, according to someone part of artificial intelligence, explain a phenomenon of interest using other phenomena. They try to go from the particular (row of data, observation or sample) to the general. We NEVER have all the data, so as even the inductive turkey who thought he was getting food every day, except becoming …
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Here you will find various cases, with a varying degree of awareness, showing the symptoms of someone who needs to switch from Excel to a database, which could become the basis of a CRM, a particular database. Or they no longer need Excel’s programming language, VBA, to do routine operations. Or the extensions can no …
Most companies are aware of the security that comes with Excel and Google spreadsheets: by default they are private and sharing is done by email or email groups, for example with the company domain @whiteltd.uk. For web services in general, things get a bit more complicated. And not dealing with this issue can create major …
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The Linux software family for everyday computer use stops at 4.5% of users. However, in the corporate environment the numbers change a lot. In fact, the first million corporate web servers see a Linux presence of over 95%. This is because it requires fewer computational resources, increasing the services that can be provided, and it …
One of the most widespread perceptions among owners, entrepreneurs, managers has to do with this situation: I have a lot of company data, understood as the number of rows in spreadsheets (even on multiple files), surely a statistician will know how to valorize this data. Attachment to this expectation can easily lead to pain because …
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What does it mean to have a data stack? To understand it we need to start from something a little more known. By industrial chemical plant we mean a site that has a storage of one or more raw materials, a reactor, a storage of the finished product with an attached distribution system, leaving out …
