Technical introduction to Business Analytics and optimization. This is part 2. Part 1 can be found here: http://www.slideshare.net/rfchong/business-analytics-and-optimization-introduction
Prediction of customer propensity to churn - Telecom IndustryPranov Mishra
The aim of this project is to help a telecom company with insights on customer behavior that would be useful for retention of customers. The specific goals expected to be achieved are given below
1. Identification of the top variables driving likelihood of churn
2. Build a predictive model to identify customers who have highest probability to terminate services with the company.
3. Build a lift chart for optimization of efforts by targeting most of the potential churns with least contact efforts. Here with 30% of the total customer pool, the model accurately provides 33% of total potential churn candidates.
Models tried to arrive at the best are
1. Simple Models like Logistic Regression & Discriminant Analysis with different thresholds for classification
2. Random Forest after balancing the dataset using Synthetic Minority Oversampling Technique (SMOTE)
3. Ensemble of five individual models and predicting the output by averaging the individual output probabilities
4. Xgboost algorithm
This Slideshare presentation is a partial preview of the full business document. To view and download the full document, please go here:
http://flevy.com/browse/business-document/business-case-development-framework-199
The Business Case is an instrumental tool in both justifying a project (requiring a capital budgeting decision), as well as measuring the project's success. The Business Case model typically takes the form of an Excel spreadsheet and quantifies the financial components of the project, projecting key metrics for making any important business decision: Net Present Value (NPV), Return on Investment (ROI), Payback Period, Cost of Investment.
If a project has been justified by the Business Case (both financially and non-financially) and receives the go-ahead from executives, the Business Case model is then continuously maintained and adjusted to track the project?s progress against the initial financial projections and assumptions. This model then becomes a working document used during the project management process.
This toolkit will detail the process of creating a robust Business Case. It also includes a working sample Business Case model (in Microsoft Excel).
Financial ratios and their use in understanding Financial StatementsPranav Dedhia
An introduction and in-depth understanding on the importance of Financial ratios in understanding financial statements of business entities along with relevant examples
1) To understand the underlying structure of Time Series represented by sequence of observations by breaking it down to its components.
2) To fit a mathematical model and proceed to forecast the future.
Business Analytics Module 5 14MBA14 according to New VTU syllabusprasadkulkarnigit
This PPT has been prepared in view of teaching fundamentals of business analytics. This is just 1% of entire Business analytics. This is according to new syllabus of VTU Belgaum .
Prediction of customer propensity to churn - Telecom IndustryPranov Mishra
The aim of this project is to help a telecom company with insights on customer behavior that would be useful for retention of customers. The specific goals expected to be achieved are given below
1. Identification of the top variables driving likelihood of churn
2. Build a predictive model to identify customers who have highest probability to terminate services with the company.
3. Build a lift chart for optimization of efforts by targeting most of the potential churns with least contact efforts. Here with 30% of the total customer pool, the model accurately provides 33% of total potential churn candidates.
Models tried to arrive at the best are
1. Simple Models like Logistic Regression & Discriminant Analysis with different thresholds for classification
2. Random Forest after balancing the dataset using Synthetic Minority Oversampling Technique (SMOTE)
3. Ensemble of five individual models and predicting the output by averaging the individual output probabilities
4. Xgboost algorithm
This Slideshare presentation is a partial preview of the full business document. To view and download the full document, please go here:
http://flevy.com/browse/business-document/business-case-development-framework-199
The Business Case is an instrumental tool in both justifying a project (requiring a capital budgeting decision), as well as measuring the project's success. The Business Case model typically takes the form of an Excel spreadsheet and quantifies the financial components of the project, projecting key metrics for making any important business decision: Net Present Value (NPV), Return on Investment (ROI), Payback Period, Cost of Investment.
If a project has been justified by the Business Case (both financially and non-financially) and receives the go-ahead from executives, the Business Case model is then continuously maintained and adjusted to track the project?s progress against the initial financial projections and assumptions. This model then becomes a working document used during the project management process.
This toolkit will detail the process of creating a robust Business Case. It also includes a working sample Business Case model (in Microsoft Excel).
Financial ratios and their use in understanding Financial StatementsPranav Dedhia
An introduction and in-depth understanding on the importance of Financial ratios in understanding financial statements of business entities along with relevant examples
1) To understand the underlying structure of Time Series represented by sequence of observations by breaking it down to its components.
2) To fit a mathematical model and proceed to forecast the future.
Business Analytics Module 5 14MBA14 according to New VTU syllabusprasadkulkarnigit
This PPT has been prepared in view of teaching fundamentals of business analytics. This is just 1% of entire Business analytics. This is according to new syllabus of VTU Belgaum .
Industry researchers at Gartner announced in April 2012 that the worldwide business intelligence, analytics, and performance management software market surpassed the US$12 Billion level in 2011, a 16.4% increase over the previous year. This statistic is among many pointing to the need for both groups to apply what management guru Peter Senge proclaimed decades ago in The Fifth Discipline: the need for a learning organization. This presentation focuses on three learning areas for anyone in the business analytics profession. First, we analysts need to learn what the markets and industries are saying today. We discuss recent trends which show how analytics will shape the future. Second, we need to learn what group learning options are available. From industry conferences (such as the PASS BA Conference, and virtual PASS sessions) to free MOOCs (massive open online courses), we have more options available to improve our knowledge. Finally, we need to learn what leadership roles our groups can have. We can leverage social networks (including PASS) and social media -- both individually and as organizations -- to communicate passion.
WSO2Con USA 2017: Driving Insights for Your Digital Business With AnalyticsWSO2
We are at the dawn of digital businesses, that are reimagined to make the best use of digital technologies such as automation, analytics, cloud, and integration. These businesses are efficient, continuously optimizing, proactive, flexible and able to understand customers in detail. A key part of a digital business is analytics: the eyes and ears of the system that tracks and provides a detailed view on what was and what is and lets decision makers predict what will be.
This session will explore how the WSO2 analytics platform
Plays a role in your digital transformation journey
Collects and analyzes data through batch, real-time, interactive and predictive processing technologies
Lets you communicate the results through dashboards
Brings together all analytics technologies into a single platform and user experience
Achieving Asset Optimization: A Strategic Approach To Aligning Assets With Mi...Huron Consulting Group
Huron Healthcare managing director Curt Whelan and Advisory Council member Jamie Orlikoff present new tools, processes, frameworks, and data points to enable healthcare executives to strategically align their assets to their mission and market needs. This resource, from the 2014 ACHE Congress on Healthcare Leadership, utilizes recent statistics and the presenters’ years of experience to advise on how to implement a strategic framework shift, leverage board support, and avoid asset rationalization in favor of asset optimization.
Driving marketing performance in financial services is subject to unique considerations. Diverse set of distribution channels, complex customer segments, a need to balance branding and promotion, and multiple outcome measures impacting customer value are factors to consider.
Introduction to Design Thinking, a way to produce better products! Concepts of design thinking can be helpful no matter your background, IT, business, design, art, etc.
This presentation introduces CP Optimizer a model & run optimization engine for solving discrete combinatorial problems with a particular focus on scheduling problems.
Predictive Analytics for Customer Targeting: A Telemarketing Banking ExamplePedro Ecija Serrano
A comparison of classification methods to predict buyers in banking telemarketing. Overcoming class imbalance and gaining insight on what customers are likely to buy a particular financial product.
Material for the 26 Oct 2015 lecture I held for Aalto University business students. The lecture focuses on the high level topics in analytics and Big Data that are either central to the subject or just highly visible in the media.
The main messages of the lecture are:
- The purpose of analytics and of the data analyst is to solve business problems
- Big Data brings over some very special traits to doing analytics that don't exist when working working with smaller datasets. Understanding these traits is a must for successful analytics.
- Deploying analytics is more dependent on humans than on technology
- Data and analytics are nowadays significant assets to many companies. Therefore they need their own strategy and need to be managed just like any other business critical assets.
Capgemini’s Smart Plant Supervision (SPS) solution can improve plant and facilities management using the Watson IoT Platform to leverage data from a wide range of digital and analog sensors. The end-to-end solution for data aggregation, analytics and action—in near real time—is offered only by Capgemini on Bluemix. By leveraging our IOT Platform Service running on Bluemix, SPS enables predictive and preventive maintenance, higher machine uptime and maximum efficiency.
Cognitive Predictive Maintenance for AutomotiveAnita Raj
In a world grappling with unanswered challenges and hidden data, the need of the hour is to unravel the dark mysteries that surround the auto industry today. It’s time to change the machine game and unlock the true human potential. It’s time to improve the overall quality of life for workers and passengers and ensure no leaf is unturned when it comes to safety and efficiency. Cognitive predictive maintenance is the game changer, that holds the key to minimizing auto recall.
Use cases for Hadoop and Big Data Analytics - InfoSphere BigInsightsGord Sissons
This presentation is from TDWI's event in Boston during the summer of 2014. IBM InfoSphere BigInsights is IBM's enterprise grade Hadoop offering. It combines the best of open-source Hadoop, with advanced capabilities including Big SQL that clients can optionally deploy to get to market faster with a variety of big data and analytic applications.
A presentation on Nastel AutoPilot's capabilities for advanced application analytics. Based on Complex Event Processing (CEP) it provides early warning about potential or actual problems across multiple data sources - and it does it in real-time.
In medicine - an MRI can quickly reveal a hidden ailment and actionable insight to get better. For IT and business leaders whose key concern with the mainframe is the platform costs and lean operations - the CA Mainframe Resource Intelligene reveals multiple sources of hidden mainframe costs and operational inefficiencies along with actionable recommendations.View this slideshare to understand how this new SaaS offering from CA brings together automation, speed, analytics and mainframe expertise of 40+ years. CA Mainframe Resource Intelligence reports answer your CIO’s toughest questions about mainframe optimization and potential for digital transformation.
For more information, please contact your account director or mainframe specialist at:
http://ow.ly/PALG50htHgF
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Prominent Car Manufacturer In UK Predicts Factors For Increasing Manufacturin...Anita Raj
To identify and predict which external factors affect machine efficiency as a key performance indicator and how to make recommendations to optimize such factors to maximize performance
The goal of this presentation is to understand how to identify the greatest vendor-related risks for an AMI deployment, understand who the stakeholders are for an AMI roll out, and to review and discuss examples of risk mitigation.
Data Mining on Customer Churn ClassificationKaushik Rajan
Implemented multiple classifiers to classify if a customer will leave or stay with the company based on multiple independent variables.
Tools used:
> RStudio for Exploratory data analysis, Data Pre-processing and building the models
> Tableau and RStudio for Visualization
> LATEX for documentation
Machine learning models used:
> Random Forest
> C5.0
> Decision tree
> Neural Network
> K-Nearest Neighbour
> Naive Bayes
> Support Vector Machine
Methodology: CRISP-DM
Customer churn classification using machine learning techniquesSindhujanDhayalan
Advanced data mining project on classifying customer churn by
using machine learning algorithms such as random forest,
C5.0, Decision tree, KNN, ANN, and SVM. CRISP-DM approach was followed for developing the project. Accuracy rate, Error rate, Precision, Recall, F1 and ROC curve was generated using R programming and the efficient model was found comparing these values.
This presentation examines how AMI data, the collection of this data and the creation of tools to use this data have dramatically changed and is continuing to change metering operations. We will look at some of the challenges we are facing as we learn how to do business most effectively with this information and these tools.
This deck explains IBM Bluemix, a PAAS based on open source (Cloud Foundry). It helps developers build applications quickly on the cloud using many of the services available, either 3rd party services or IBM services. It is the only PAAS in the market that offers Watson services.
SMAC projects - The best summer internship experience I ever had!Raul Chong
Big Data University Internship - Last event showcasing SMAC projects using IoT (Sensors, arduino, Raspberry Pi, Freakduino, TI Beaglebone, etc) in addition to Bluemix PAAS, Cloudant, Analytics warehouse, etc.
Rapidly developing IoT (Internet of Things) applications - Part 2: Arduino, B...Raul Chong
These are the slides used in the Toronto-SMAC meetup:
"Rapidly developing IoT (Internet of Things) applications - Part 2"
http://www.meetup.com/Toronto-SMAC-Social-Mobile-Analytics-Cloud-Meetup/events/195132732/
Topics covered:
- Arduino and sensors: Bus simulation project
- Freakduino and solar panels: Vibrometer project
- Raspberry-Pi: Home security system (part 2)
- Oculus Rift: Developing an Educational game (part 2)
- Beacons: Tracking customer patterns at a retail store
- Introduction to Node-Red
Rapidly Developing Internet of Things (IoT) Applications. Demos include using the Raspberry Pi, Beacons, the Oculus Rift, and other sensors. Apps were developed using Bluemix services.
0430 toronto smac_meetup_worklight_intro_finalRaul Chong
SMAC Toronto presentation with Mobile as the main theme for this event. Demos using IBM Worklight, Cloudant, App Inventor, and BLU Acceleration for Cloud
Le nuove frontiere dell'AI nell'RPA con UiPath Autopilot™UiPathCommunity
In questo evento online gratuito, organizzato dalla Community Italiana di UiPath, potrai esplorare le nuove funzionalità di Autopilot, il tool che integra l'Intelligenza Artificiale nei processi di sviluppo e utilizzo delle Automazioni.
📕 Vedremo insieme alcuni esempi dell'utilizzo di Autopilot in diversi tool della Suite UiPath:
Autopilot per Studio Web
Autopilot per Studio
Autopilot per Apps
Clipboard AI
GenAI applicata alla Document Understanding
👨🏫👨💻 Speakers:
Stefano Negro, UiPath MVPx3, RPA Tech Lead @ BSP Consultant
Flavio Martinelli, UiPath MVP 2023, Technical Account Manager @UiPath
Andrei Tasca, RPA Solutions Team Lead @NTT Data
Securing your Kubernetes cluster_ a step-by-step guide to success !KatiaHIMEUR1
Today, after several years of existence, an extremely active community and an ultra-dynamic ecosystem, Kubernetes has established itself as the de facto standard in container orchestration. Thanks to a wide range of managed services, it has never been so easy to set up a ready-to-use Kubernetes cluster.
However, this ease of use means that the subject of security in Kubernetes is often left for later, or even neglected. This exposes companies to significant risks.
In this talk, I'll show you step-by-step how to secure your Kubernetes cluster for greater peace of mind and reliability.
Transcript: Selling digital books in 2024: Insights from industry leaders - T...BookNet Canada
The publishing industry has been selling digital audiobooks and ebooks for over a decade and has found its groove. What’s changed? What has stayed the same? Where do we go from here? Join a group of leading sales peers from across the industry for a conversation about the lessons learned since the popularization of digital books, best practices, digital book supply chain management, and more.
Link to video recording: https://bnctechforum.ca/sessions/selling-digital-books-in-2024-insights-from-industry-leaders/
Presented by BookNet Canada on May 28, 2024, with support from the Department of Canadian Heritage.
Essentials of Automations: Optimizing FME Workflows with ParametersSafe Software
Are you looking to streamline your workflows and boost your projects’ efficiency? Do you find yourself searching for ways to add flexibility and control over your FME workflows? If so, you’re in the right place.
Join us for an insightful dive into the world of FME parameters, a critical element in optimizing workflow efficiency. This webinar marks the beginning of our three-part “Essentials of Automation” series. This first webinar is designed to equip you with the knowledge and skills to utilize parameters effectively: enhancing the flexibility, maintainability, and user control of your FME projects.
Here’s what you’ll gain:
- Essentials of FME Parameters: Understand the pivotal role of parameters, including Reader/Writer, Transformer, User, and FME Flow categories. Discover how they are the key to unlocking automation and optimization within your workflows.
- Practical Applications in FME Form: Delve into key user parameter types including choice, connections, and file URLs. Allow users to control how a workflow runs, making your workflows more reusable. Learn to import values and deliver the best user experience for your workflows while enhancing accuracy.
- Optimization Strategies in FME Flow: Explore the creation and strategic deployment of parameters in FME Flow, including the use of deployment and geometry parameters, to maximize workflow efficiency.
- Pro Tips for Success: Gain insights on parameterizing connections and leveraging new features like Conditional Visibility for clarity and simplicity.
We’ll wrap up with a glimpse into future webinars, followed by a Q&A session to address your specific questions surrounding this topic.
Don’t miss this opportunity to elevate your FME expertise and drive your projects to new heights of efficiency.
Smart TV Buyer Insights Survey 2024 by 91mobiles.pdf91mobiles
91mobiles recently conducted a Smart TV Buyer Insights Survey in which we asked over 3,000 respondents about the TV they own, aspects they look at on a new TV, and their TV buying preferences.
A tale of scale & speed: How the US Navy is enabling software delivery from l...sonjaschweigert1
Rapid and secure feature delivery is a goal across every application team and every branch of the DoD. The Navy’s DevSecOps platform, Party Barge, has achieved:
- Reduction in onboarding time from 5 weeks to 1 day
- Improved developer experience and productivity through actionable findings and reduction of false positives
- Maintenance of superior security standards and inherent policy enforcement with Authorization to Operate (ATO)
Development teams can ship efficiently and ensure applications are cyber ready for Navy Authorizing Officials (AOs). In this webinar, Sigma Defense and Anchore will give attendees a look behind the scenes and demo secure pipeline automation and security artifacts that speed up application ATO and time to production.
We will cover:
- How to remove silos in DevSecOps
- How to build efficient development pipeline roles and component templates
- How to deliver security artifacts that matter for ATO’s (SBOMs, vulnerability reports, and policy evidence)
- How to streamline operations with automated policy checks on container images
GraphRAG is All You need? LLM & Knowledge GraphGuy Korland
Guy Korland, CEO and Co-founder of FalkorDB, will review two articles on the integration of language models with knowledge graphs.
1. Unifying Large Language Models and Knowledge Graphs: A Roadmap.
https://arxiv.org/abs/2306.08302
2. Microsoft Research's GraphRAG paper and a review paper on various uses of knowledge graphs:
https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/blog/graphrag-unlocking-llm-discovery-on-narrative-private-data/
LF Energy Webinar: Electrical Grid Modelling and Simulation Through PowSyBl -...DanBrown980551
Do you want to learn how to model and simulate an electrical network from scratch in under an hour?
Then welcome to this PowSyBl workshop, hosted by Rte, the French Transmission System Operator (TSO)!
During the webinar, you will discover the PowSyBl ecosystem as well as handle and study an electrical network through an interactive Python notebook.
PowSyBl is an open source project hosted by LF Energy, which offers a comprehensive set of features for electrical grid modelling and simulation. Among other advanced features, PowSyBl provides:
- A fully editable and extendable library for grid component modelling;
- Visualization tools to display your network;
- Grid simulation tools, such as power flows, security analyses (with or without remedial actions) and sensitivity analyses;
The framework is mostly written in Java, with a Python binding so that Python developers can access PowSyBl functionalities as well.
What you will learn during the webinar:
- For beginners: discover PowSyBl's functionalities through a quick general presentation and the notebook, without needing any expert coding skills;
- For advanced developers: master the skills to efficiently apply PowSyBl functionalities to your real-world scenarios.
DevOps and Testing slides at DASA ConnectKari Kakkonen
My and Rik Marselis slides at 30.5.2024 DASA Connect conference. We discuss about what is testing, then what is agile testing and finally what is Testing in DevOps. Finally we had lovely workshop with the participants trying to find out different ways to think about quality and testing in different parts of the DevOps infinity loop.
PHP Frameworks: I want to break free (IPC Berlin 2024)Ralf Eggert
In this presentation, we examine the challenges and limitations of relying too heavily on PHP frameworks in web development. We discuss the history of PHP and its frameworks to understand how this dependence has evolved. The focus will be on providing concrete tips and strategies to reduce reliance on these frameworks, based on real-world examples and practical considerations. The goal is to equip developers with the skills and knowledge to create more flexible and future-proof web applications. We'll explore the importance of maintaining autonomy in a rapidly changing tech landscape and how to make informed decisions in PHP development.
This talk is aimed at encouraging a more independent approach to using PHP frameworks, moving towards a more flexible and future-proof approach to PHP development.
State of ICS and IoT Cyber Threat Landscape Report 2024 previewPrayukth K V
The IoT and OT threat landscape report has been prepared by the Threat Research Team at Sectrio using data from Sectrio, cyber threat intelligence farming facilities spread across over 85 cities around the world. In addition, Sectrio also runs AI-based advanced threat and payload engagement facilities that serve as sinks to attract and engage sophisticated threat actors, and newer malware including new variants and latent threats that are at an earlier stage of development.
The latest edition of the OT/ICS and IoT security Threat Landscape Report 2024 also covers:
State of global ICS asset and network exposure
Sectoral targets and attacks as well as the cost of ransom
Global APT activity, AI usage, actor and tactic profiles, and implications
Rise in volumes of AI-powered cyberattacks
Major cyber events in 2024
Malware and malicious payload trends
Cyberattack types and targets
Vulnerability exploit attempts on CVEs
Attacks on counties – USA
Expansion of bot farms – how, where, and why
In-depth analysis of the cyber threat landscape across North America, South America, Europe, APAC, and the Middle East
Why are attacks on smart factories rising?
Cyber risk predictions
Axis of attacks – Europe
Systemic attacks in the Middle East
Download the full report from here:
https://sectrio.com/resources/ot-threat-landscape-reports/sectrio-releases-ot-ics-and-iot-security-threat-landscape-report-2024/
Observability Concepts EVERY Developer Should Know -- DeveloperWeek Europe.pdfPaige Cruz
Monitoring and observability aren’t traditionally found in software curriculums and many of us cobble this knowledge together from whatever vendor or ecosystem we were first introduced to and whatever is a part of your current company’s observability stack.
While the dev and ops silo continues to crumble….many organizations still relegate monitoring & observability as the purview of ops, infra and SRE teams. This is a mistake - achieving a highly observable system requires collaboration up and down the stack.
I, a former op, would like to extend an invitation to all application developers to join the observability party will share these foundational concepts to build on:
Observability Concepts EVERY Developer Should Know -- DeveloperWeek Europe.pdf
Business Analytics and Optimization Introduction (part 2)
1. Business Analytics and Optimization: A Technical Introduction (Part 2)
Oleksandr Romanko, Ph.D.
Senior Research Analyst, Risk Analytics – Business Analytics, IBM
Adjunct Professor, University of Toronto
Toronto SMAC Meetup
October 9, 2014