On Annuity Design - Pocket Gamer San Francisco 2017ScientificRevenue
In this talk from Pocket Gamer San Francisco, Ted Verani, Scientific Revenue's Head of Business Development walks a crowd of monetization designers and game engineers through the basics of annuity design. By the end, they know exactly how to add annuities to their games and increase their monetization.
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Talk by Bill Grosso, CEO Scientific Revenue, on the very basics of price design. Intended for a game-desing audience, and intended to introduce core ideas in pricing.
Many references included.
A talk from PocketGamer Connects in early 2016. High level trend analysis (do's and don'ts) of IAP-based monetization. If you're figuring out how IAP fits into an overall monetization strategy, this is the deck for you.
Scientific Revenue's own Ted Verani conducts a masterclass in annuity design. If you're thinking about adding annuities to your game., you need to see this presentation.
Are you selling a virtual currency in a game or digital entertainment application? This presentation, from GDC 2015, covers some basic design tips that you should be aware of.
Are you selling a virtual currency in a game or digital entertainment application? This presentation, from GDC 2015, covers some basic design tips that you should be aware of.
It’s been a year in retail like no other.
The retail industry is in the midst of unprecedented disruption - the days of slow, strategic planning are part of a bygone era. There have been record store closings, aggressive new retail concepts, major retail acquisitions, restructuring and bankruptcies.
To survive and thrive, retailers are pushing the boundaries of technology - using data and intelligence in ways never before seen across the merchandising, planning, allocation, and fulfillment process. Review some of the major themes and shocking moments of 2017 with special guest Deborah Weinswig, Managing Director of Fung Global Retail & Technology, plus tips on how to succeed in 2018. The slides cover the following themes:
- A review of the major trends and key industry happenings in 2017
- Why retailers are afraid to tell customers that they know so much about them
- Ways in which optimizing inventories can be the key to serving your customers
- How to better understand customers and provide a better experience through advanced analytics
- Tips on how to succeed in 2018... and more
On Annuity Design - Pocket Gamer San Francisco 2017ScientificRevenue
In this talk from Pocket Gamer San Francisco, Ted Verani, Scientific Revenue's Head of Business Development walks a crowd of monetization designers and game engineers through the basics of annuity design. By the end, they know exactly how to add annuities to their games and increase their monetization.
www.scientificrevenue.com
Talk by Bill Grosso, CEO Scientific Revenue, on the very basics of price design. Intended for a game-desing audience, and intended to introduce core ideas in pricing.
Many references included.
A talk from PocketGamer Connects in early 2016. High level trend analysis (do's and don'ts) of IAP-based monetization. If you're figuring out how IAP fits into an overall monetization strategy, this is the deck for you.
Scientific Revenue's own Ted Verani conducts a masterclass in annuity design. If you're thinking about adding annuities to your game., you need to see this presentation.
Are you selling a virtual currency in a game or digital entertainment application? This presentation, from GDC 2015, covers some basic design tips that you should be aware of.
Are you selling a virtual currency in a game or digital entertainment application? This presentation, from GDC 2015, covers some basic design tips that you should be aware of.
It’s been a year in retail like no other.
The retail industry is in the midst of unprecedented disruption - the days of slow, strategic planning are part of a bygone era. There have been record store closings, aggressive new retail concepts, major retail acquisitions, restructuring and bankruptcies.
To survive and thrive, retailers are pushing the boundaries of technology - using data and intelligence in ways never before seen across the merchandising, planning, allocation, and fulfillment process. Review some of the major themes and shocking moments of 2017 with special guest Deborah Weinswig, Managing Director of Fung Global Retail & Technology, plus tips on how to succeed in 2018. The slides cover the following themes:
- A review of the major trends and key industry happenings in 2017
- Why retailers are afraid to tell customers that they know so much about them
- Ways in which optimizing inventories can be the key to serving your customers
- How to better understand customers and provide a better experience through advanced analytics
- Tips on how to succeed in 2018... and more
Learn how retailers and brands are thinking about programs that benefit themselves, their partners, and their customers by bringing the right content to the consumer at the point of purchase, most specifically in the online space.
The presentation discusses the fundamentals of procurement, how your organisation views suppliers and what you should be doing to ensure a profit-centric procurement department. This presentation serves as a continuation of our previous presentation -What is Supply Chain?
Why the Ultimate 360° Insurance Experience Eludes Insurers EIS Group
How can insurers excel in customer engagement? 7 essentials of a unified core systems, sales and marketing platform are needed.
Abstract: In a recent SMA study, more than 80% of insurers said that they were making strategic investments in customer engagement and experience. Yet, only 8% of them are able to present a single view of their customers across all channels. This presentation explores the impact of that gap on both insurance companies and policyholders, and explains the 7 essentials needed to overcome those challenges.
Preparing for the Board Room: Subscription Metrics (Subscribed13)Zuora, Inc.
Deloitte - Andy Main, Customer Solutions Leader
TrackVia - Pete Khanna, CEO
The measurement of success is fundamentally different in the Subscription Economy. Communicating the health of your business to the Board requires a unique approach, with a new set of forward-facing metrics. Come hear from two visionary CEO’s about how they measure and communicate the health of their business.
4-Step Guide to Mobile Engagement - presented by Forrester Research & Message...SparkPost
The constant evolution of today’s mobile environment can seem complicated—even overwhelming. Your audience is on the move, making them favor businesses that can keep information relevant, and in quickly consumable form.
Hear from guest speaker Julie A. Ask, Vice President and Principal Analyst for Forester Research, as she outlines a simple four-step process for creating an engaging mobile experience.
Learn how to:
Engage expertly by identifying context
Build branding with a well-designed engagement experience
Optimize marketing dollars leveraging the entire mobile ecosystem
Refine strategy by monitoring performance
First-Party World Problems: Future-Proof Your Business with First-Party DataIn Marketing We Trust
Last month for our Data-Driven Digital Community webinar, we talked about First-Party World Problems and how to Future-Proof Your Business with First-Party Data with our Head of Growth, Selina Gough.
Collecting and strategically activating first-party data has never been more important and it’s the businesses who are preparing for the change of cookies in their business decision-making processes that are winning today.
Learn:
- How businesses can formulate strategies to collect relevant data
- How to utilise first-party data to provide value to consumers
- How first-party data improves reporting, marketing budget utilisation and marketing decision making
This presentation discusses how rather than loyalty, retailers should be looking for ‘relevance’ – context-specific, personalised customer engagement matched to the customer’s individual needs.
Marketing in the Age of the Connected CustomerMediaPost
Salesforce just released the State of the Connected Customer report, containing insights on the intersection of experience and trust from over 6,700 global consumers and business buyers. We will share these insight and how you can turn insights into action. As marketers, you want to understand your customer and how to connect with them, and this research provides insights on exceeding consumer expectations.
Real-Time Personalization - Turn Your Anonymous Prospects into Qualified LeadsMarketo
More than 98% of visitors on your website are anonymous, but that doesn't mean you can't successfully engage them and generate more qualified leads.
Marketo Real-Time Personalization allows you to nurture, educate and turn more of your top-of-funnel leads into qualified leads and engaged customers.
Extend your marketing reach with personalized content, messaging, and calls-to-action based on a visitor’s organization, industry, locations, or digital behavior — even if they are anonymous. Then, continue the individualized conversation with buyers through multiple channels and stages of their journey — from the first ad they see, to onsite engagement, through final acquisition.
Engaging buyers with a compelling and captivating value-based story builds trust and rapport, creates a foundation for meaningful conversations and demonstrates your track record as a reputable salesperson. Grabbing a prospect’s attention with a story that elicits an emotional response they can relate to and involves a business issue they are wrestling with reinforces a key ValueSelling Framework® principle: People make emotional buying decisions for logical reasons.
Increasing the value in your business can be hard work, requiring time and money. We have developed a way for you to grow your business by working smarter - not harder.
Learn how retailers and brands are thinking about programs that benefit themselves, their partners, and their customers by bringing the right content to the consumer at the point of purchase, most specifically in the online space.
The presentation discusses the fundamentals of procurement, how your organisation views suppliers and what you should be doing to ensure a profit-centric procurement department. This presentation serves as a continuation of our previous presentation -What is Supply Chain?
Why the Ultimate 360° Insurance Experience Eludes Insurers EIS Group
How can insurers excel in customer engagement? 7 essentials of a unified core systems, sales and marketing platform are needed.
Abstract: In a recent SMA study, more than 80% of insurers said that they were making strategic investments in customer engagement and experience. Yet, only 8% of them are able to present a single view of their customers across all channels. This presentation explores the impact of that gap on both insurance companies and policyholders, and explains the 7 essentials needed to overcome those challenges.
Preparing for the Board Room: Subscription Metrics (Subscribed13)Zuora, Inc.
Deloitte - Andy Main, Customer Solutions Leader
TrackVia - Pete Khanna, CEO
The measurement of success is fundamentally different in the Subscription Economy. Communicating the health of your business to the Board requires a unique approach, with a new set of forward-facing metrics. Come hear from two visionary CEO’s about how they measure and communicate the health of their business.
4-Step Guide to Mobile Engagement - presented by Forrester Research & Message...SparkPost
The constant evolution of today’s mobile environment can seem complicated—even overwhelming. Your audience is on the move, making them favor businesses that can keep information relevant, and in quickly consumable form.
Hear from guest speaker Julie A. Ask, Vice President and Principal Analyst for Forester Research, as she outlines a simple four-step process for creating an engaging mobile experience.
Learn how to:
Engage expertly by identifying context
Build branding with a well-designed engagement experience
Optimize marketing dollars leveraging the entire mobile ecosystem
Refine strategy by monitoring performance
First-Party World Problems: Future-Proof Your Business with First-Party DataIn Marketing We Trust
Last month for our Data-Driven Digital Community webinar, we talked about First-Party World Problems and how to Future-Proof Your Business with First-Party Data with our Head of Growth, Selina Gough.
Collecting and strategically activating first-party data has never been more important and it’s the businesses who are preparing for the change of cookies in their business decision-making processes that are winning today.
Learn:
- How businesses can formulate strategies to collect relevant data
- How to utilise first-party data to provide value to consumers
- How first-party data improves reporting, marketing budget utilisation and marketing decision making
This presentation discusses how rather than loyalty, retailers should be looking for ‘relevance’ – context-specific, personalised customer engagement matched to the customer’s individual needs.
Marketing in the Age of the Connected CustomerMediaPost
Salesforce just released the State of the Connected Customer report, containing insights on the intersection of experience and trust from over 6,700 global consumers and business buyers. We will share these insight and how you can turn insights into action. As marketers, you want to understand your customer and how to connect with them, and this research provides insights on exceeding consumer expectations.
Real-Time Personalization - Turn Your Anonymous Prospects into Qualified LeadsMarketo
More than 98% of visitors on your website are anonymous, but that doesn't mean you can't successfully engage them and generate more qualified leads.
Marketo Real-Time Personalization allows you to nurture, educate and turn more of your top-of-funnel leads into qualified leads and engaged customers.
Extend your marketing reach with personalized content, messaging, and calls-to-action based on a visitor’s organization, industry, locations, or digital behavior — even if they are anonymous. Then, continue the individualized conversation with buyers through multiple channels and stages of their journey — from the first ad they see, to onsite engagement, through final acquisition.
Engaging buyers with a compelling and captivating value-based story builds trust and rapport, creates a foundation for meaningful conversations and demonstrates your track record as a reputable salesperson. Grabbing a prospect’s attention with a story that elicits an emotional response they can relate to and involves a business issue they are wrestling with reinforces a key ValueSelling Framework® principle: People make emotional buying decisions for logical reasons.
Increasing the value in your business can be hard work, requiring time and money. We have developed a way for you to grow your business by working smarter - not harder.
ViewShift: Hassle-free Dynamic Policy Enforcement for Every Data LakeWalaa Eldin Moustafa
Dynamic policy enforcement is becoming an increasingly important topic in today’s world where data privacy and compliance is a top priority for companies, individuals, and regulators alike. In these slides, we discuss how LinkedIn implements a powerful dynamic policy enforcement engine, called ViewShift, and integrates it within its data lake. We show the query engine architecture and how catalog implementations can automatically route table resolutions to compliance-enforcing SQL views. Such views have a set of very interesting properties: (1) They are auto-generated from declarative data annotations. (2) They respect user-level consent and preferences (3) They are context-aware, encoding a different set of transformations for different use cases (4) They are portable; while the SQL logic is only implemented in one SQL dialect, it is accessible in all engines.
#SQL #Views #Privacy #Compliance #DataLake
06-04-2024 - NYC Tech Week - Discussion on Vector Databases, Unstructured Data and AI
Round table discussion of vector databases, unstructured data, ai, big data, real-time, robots and Milvus.
A lively discussion with NJ Gen AI Meetup Lead, Prasad and Procure.FYI's Co-Found
Enhanced Enterprise Intelligence with your personal AI Data Copilot.pdfGetInData
Recently we have observed the rise of open-source Large Language Models (LLMs) that are community-driven or developed by the AI market leaders, such as Meta (Llama3), Databricks (DBRX) and Snowflake (Arctic). On the other hand, there is a growth in interest in specialized, carefully fine-tuned yet relatively small models that can efficiently assist programmers in day-to-day tasks. Finally, Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) architectures have gained a lot of traction as the preferred approach for LLMs context and prompt augmentation for building conversational SQL data copilots, code copilots and chatbots.
In this presentation, we will show how we built upon these three concepts a robust Data Copilot that can help to democratize access to company data assets and boost performance of everyone working with data platforms.
Why do we need yet another (open-source ) Copilot?
How can we build one?
Architecture and evaluation
Global Situational Awareness of A.I. and where its headedvikram sood
You can see the future first in San Francisco.
Over the past year, the talk of the town has shifted from $10 billion compute clusters to $100 billion clusters to trillion-dollar clusters. Every six months another zero is added to the boardroom plans. Behind the scenes, there’s a fierce scramble to secure every power contract still available for the rest of the decade, every voltage transformer that can possibly be procured. American big business is gearing up to pour trillions of dollars into a long-unseen mobilization of American industrial might. By the end of the decade, American electricity production will have grown tens of percent; from the shale fields of Pennsylvania to the solar farms of Nevada, hundreds of millions of GPUs will hum.
The AGI race has begun. We are building machines that can think and reason. By 2025/26, these machines will outpace college graduates. By the end of the decade, they will be smarter than you or I; we will have superintelligence, in the true sense of the word. Along the way, national security forces not seen in half a century will be un-leashed, and before long, The Project will be on. If we’re lucky, we’ll be in an all-out race with the CCP; if we’re unlucky, an all-out war.
Everyone is now talking about AI, but few have the faintest glimmer of what is about to hit them. Nvidia analysts still think 2024 might be close to the peak. Mainstream pundits are stuck on the wilful blindness of “it’s just predicting the next word”. They see only hype and business-as-usual; at most they entertain another internet-scale technological change.
Before long, the world will wake up. But right now, there are perhaps a few hundred people, most of them in San Francisco and the AI labs, that have situational awareness. Through whatever peculiar forces of fate, I have found myself amongst them. A few years ago, these people were derided as crazy—but they trusted the trendlines, which allowed them to correctly predict the AI advances of the past few years. Whether these people are also right about the next few years remains to be seen. But these are very smart people—the smartest people I have ever met—and they are the ones building this technology. Perhaps they will be an odd footnote in history, or perhaps they will go down in history like Szilard and Oppenheimer and Teller. If they are seeing the future even close to correctly, we are in for a wild ride.
Let me tell you what we see.
Chatty Kathy - UNC Bootcamp Final Project Presentation - Final Version - 5.23...John Andrews
SlideShare Description for "Chatty Kathy - UNC Bootcamp Final Project Presentation"
Title: Chatty Kathy: Enhancing Physical Activity Among Older Adults
Description:
Discover how Chatty Kathy, an innovative project developed at the UNC Bootcamp, aims to tackle the challenge of low physical activity among older adults. Our AI-driven solution uses peer interaction to boost and sustain exercise levels, significantly improving health outcomes. This presentation covers our problem statement, the rationale behind Chatty Kathy, synthetic data and persona creation, model performance metrics, a visual demonstration of the project, and potential future developments. Join us for an insightful Q&A session to explore the potential of this groundbreaking project.
Project Team: Jay Requarth, Jana Avery, John Andrews, Dr. Dick Davis II, Nee Buntoum, Nam Yeongjin & Mat Nicholas
Adjusting OpenMP PageRank : SHORT REPORT / NOTESSubhajit Sahu
For massive graphs that fit in RAM, but not in GPU memory, it is possible to take
advantage of a shared memory system with multiple CPUs, each with multiple cores, to
accelerate pagerank computation. If the NUMA architecture of the system is properly taken
into account with good vertex partitioning, the speedup can be significant. To take steps in
this direction, experiments are conducted to implement pagerank in OpenMP using two
different approaches, uniform and hybrid. The uniform approach runs all primitives required
for pagerank in OpenMP mode (with multiple threads). On the other hand, the hybrid
approach runs certain primitives in sequential mode (i.e., sumAt, multiply).
The Building Blocks of QuestDB, a Time Series Databasejavier ramirez
Talk Delivered at Valencia Codes Meetup 2024-06.
Traditionally, databases have treated timestamps just as another data type. However, when performing real-time analytics, timestamps should be first class citizens and we need rich time semantics to get the most out of our data. We also need to deal with ever growing datasets while keeping performant, which is as fun as it sounds.
It is no wonder time-series databases are now more popular than ever before. Join me in this session to learn about the internal architecture and building blocks of QuestDB, an open source time-series database designed for speed. We will also review a history of some of the changes we have gone over the past two years to deal with late and unordered data, non-blocking writes, read-replicas, or faster batch ingestion.
Analysis insight about a Flyball dog competition team's performanceroli9797
Insight of my analysis about a Flyball dog competition team's last year performance. Find more: https://github.com/rolandnagy-ds/flyball_race_analysis/tree/main
11. bill@scientificrevenue.com
In the World of Airlines
• Non-negotiated pricing
• Flexible return policy
• Segmentable market demand
• Highly competitive markets / little
or no vendor loyalty
• Generally available ratecards
• Pre-existing anchoring on pricing
and rates
• Infrequent, large-dollar amount
purchases
• Customers return months or years
later
• Low variable costs
• Fixed capacity
• Inventory can be changed from one
product to another
• Perishable inventory
12. bill@scientificrevenue.com
In the World of Digital Content
• Non-negotiated pricing
• Flexible return policy
• Segmentable market demand
• Highly competitive markets / little
or no vendor loyalty
• Generally available ratecards
• Pre-existing anchoring on pricing
and rates
• Infrequent, large-dollar amount
purchases
• Customers return months or years
later
• Low variable costs
• Fixed capacity
• Inventory can be changed from one
product to another
• Perishable inventory
“One sided haggling” -- Ability to offer
different prices at different times.
Market conditions change depending on
user engagement.
Pricing can be highly personalized and based
on deep knowledge of individual consumer
Anchoring depends on vertical but is mostly
mitigated by virtual currency formulations
Large numbers of small transactions
occurring close together in time
Costs mostly variable
Unlimited capacity and inventory
Durable inventory