Why Booking.com?

Booking.com, part of Priceline.com listed in NASDAQ, is a market leader in online hotel reservations in Europe. Since 1996 our Finance Team has expanded to more than 200 financial professionals, mostly based in Amsterdam, the company's global headquarters. We believe that the passion and talent of our employees is our strength and is what drives us towards outstanding performance.

Does a successful career to you mean challenges and delivering…

Why Booking.com?

Booking.com, part of Priceline.com listed in NASDAQ, is a market leader in online hotel reservations in Europe. Since 1996 our Finance Team has expanded to more than 200 financial professionals, mostly based in Amsterdam, the company's global headquarters. We believe that the passion and talent of our employees is our strength and is what drives us towards outstanding performance.

Does a successful career to you mean challenges and delivering…

To determine your premium. They check if you regularly purchase cheese burgers, cigarettes, alcohol etc.…

This is our new batch of popular discussions. Some are forum questions asking for member feedback. One is controversial blog posts that will make most people laugh except Americans. Comments are also very interesting to read.…

The SAS BI web clients each have their own link (or URL).  When working across many customer sites or even just using my own demo sites –  there can be a lot of links to track (BI Dashboard, Portal, WRS, etc). Certainly I can add bookmarks to my browser –  but when moving to different systems I found it’s easier to just have a little .HTML file that I can edit as needed.

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If you are not sure what I’m trying to describe –  the following…

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MSc Econometrics is the New Degree level program which is offered Online. It is one…

I have been very busy in the past month writing guest post for some of the different blogs that I follow and find interesting.  I’ve also been reading some books that I wanted to share with you!

Blogging! Blogging! and More Blogging!

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For years, the data business has relied on “data specialists”.  These experts understand data, and business leaders have to know who they are if they are to find answers to their questions.  My friend Howard Dresner, who coined the term “Business Intelligence”, used to call this phenomenon the “black market of information”.  These experts had all types of names from…

First, you can now browse our Data Science eBook online on Data Science Central. We are in the process of adding a lot of new material and expect to reach 140 pages by the end of the month.

We also invite you to read our weekly featured…

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I trust this e-mail finds you well! You are receiving this e-mail because of your expertise in the field of data mining and its applications in social network analysis and fuzzy systems. As such, I would like to cordially invite you to consider…

While at the SAS Global Forum, someone said to me – “You cannot write code in SAS Enterprise Guide.”  It was a little shocking to me that the person thought SAS Enterprise Guide was all wizards, flow diagrams, and magic. After talking to a few other folks I have found that it is a common myth.  

News Flash!  You can just code in SAS Enterprise Guide!  Today I’ll show you how I pull data from Outlook into SAS Enterprise Guide to create a tweet.  And I’m just going to…

Hi All,

Could anyone please explain me that how to identify the distribution pattern of a variable...Lets suppose we have a data set and we want to know the distribution pattern (e.g - binomial , gama or any other distribution pattern) of a particular variable ...

A recent Business Daily Africa article "SMEs pay high penalty for poor record keeping" has summarized the results of…

For all the strides that data mining tools have made, using them well still requires hard work and critical thought.  In this article on the nuts & bolts of DM, we review a real workhorse for data mining and analysis - the histogram.  Among the histograms encountered most frequently in practice are the following: “money”, “count”, and “outlier”.  We will look at each one of them in turn….     Read the…

Poor marketing dashboards and enterprise reporting presentations result in indecision. Marketing managers intuitively know when they are dealing with information that is of little value, but is presented as their only solution because of inexperienced practitioners and inflexible enterprise reporting strategies.

Gain incredible insights, lead the…

The en masse retirement of Baby Boomer generation professionals underway is witnessing an unprecedented ‘brain drain’ from a host of industries in the industrialized world.  Can Machine Learning methods be used to capture some of this exiting expertise?    

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In this post we explore a handy technique used here at BigML for understanding numeric data.

If you are familiar with the MapReduce paradigm, you've probably seen the word count example. It's a simple, distributed way to reduce a large set of words…

This article is part of our series on new startup ideas.

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A controversial use of big data by Yahoo and Google to try to change voters opinions, for the presidential elections. Do you think that a rogue candidate would be ready to run large click fraud campaigns to deplete their opponents advertising budgets?

Here's the article:…

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