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Leveraging data science to define your ideal customer profile (ICP)In Seizing the Low-Hanging Fruit in Business with Data Science, I mentioned that companies would gain tremendous growth opportunities by cutting back on underperforming initiatives. Across industries, these failing initiatives start with the wrong audience. For example, if a gadget startup tries to win over conservative consumers, its campaigns will yield little returns.Discovering the ideal customer profile (ICP) is often more challenging than…

Foxconn the world's largest contract electronics maker, said it wanted its customers to sell electric vehicles (EVs) in large numbers, produced in Taiwan, Thailand and the United States and possibly in the future also in India and Indonesia. The ambition lines up with Taiwan-based Foxconn's plans to ramp up EV business to help diversify away from its role of assembling consumer gadgets like iPhones for Apple Inc and other tech firms. Speaking at the company's annual Tech Day, Chairman Liu Young-way said that along with…

https://madcavestudios.com/Marjorie Liu was in attendance at New York Comic-Con 2022 sharing some details on her all-new graphic novel horror series The Night Eaters as well as early release copies of the first installment in the trilogy. The Eisner winner joins forces again with Sana Takeda (the pair were the creative team behind the New York Times–bestselling series Monstress) to bring to life the gorgeously rendered “multi-generational story about family, race in America, and the danger of keeping secrets.” The…

In 15 minutes or lessPhoto by Etienne Girardet on UnsplashAWS Athena is serverless and intended for ad-hoc SQL queries against data on AWS S3. However, maintaining data lineage and dependency is tedious and error-prone (no difference in Data Warehouses though).DBT (Data Build Tool) has recently become extremely popular as it can automatically draw data lineage/generate documentation of the data pipeline, not to mention its’ other features like Snapshot, Jinja & Macro support.There are tons of references related to…

HONG KONG— Richard Liu, the billionaire founder of Chinese e-commerce giant JD.com Inc., settled a lawsuit filed against him by a former student at the University of Minnesota, ending a legal battle that had attracted widespread attention in China. The agreement to settle came on Saturday, two days before a jury in Minneapolis was set to hear testimony to determine whether Mr. Liu raped the student,…

Amy Forliti / Associated Press: JD.com founder Richard Liu agreed to settle a US lawsuit filed by a former University of Minnesota student who alleged he raped her in 2018 — Chinese billionaire and JD.com founder Richard Liu agreed to settle a lawsuit filed by a former University of Minnesota student who alleged he raped … Amy Forliti / Associated Press: JD.com founder Richard Liu agreed to settle a US lawsuit filed by a former University of Minnesota student who alleged he raped her in…

Today I want to share a seemingly common-sense yet often-ignored data science findingCompanies will gain tremendous growth opportunities by simply cutting back budgets on initiatives that are not working — the low-hanging fruit in business.Image from UnsplashI once worked as a data scientist in a startup. Most of the startup’s revenue came from inbound leads. Although there were satisfying numbers of leads coming in every day, the conversion rate was not ideal. Curious about how to improve conversion and revenue with the…

Understand MolKGNN, an interpretable GNN tailored for drug discoveryFigure 1. An analogy of (A) image convolution and (B) proposed molecular convolution. Image from the original paper.This blog introduces our latest model Molecular Kernel Graph Neural Network (MolKGNN) from the paperInterpretable Chirality-Aware Graph Neural Network for Quantitative Structure Activity Relationship Modeling in Drug DiscoveryElucidating molecular structures and their pharmacological activity has been a long-standing problem in the history…

Image: Titmouse Inc/AMCSomehow Pantheon is AMC Networks’ first traditionally animated series, a style that contrasts with its near-future tale of technological horrors—and how love just might be able to transcend them. Based on short stories by multiple Hugo-winning author and translator Ken Liu (“The Paper Menagerie,” The Dandelion Dynasty), the eight-episode series boasts a tremendous voice cast and a morally complex mystery at its core.Created by Craig Silverstein (Turn: Washington’s Spies, Nikita)—who’s also writer,…

Simu Liu has teased the upcoming Barbie movie, saying he thinks it’ll “surprise a lot of people”.The 33-year-old Marvel actor stars in director Greta Gerwig’s romantic comedy, which is based on the famous doll, alongside Margot Robbie as the titular character and Ryan Gosling as Ken, Barbie’s boyfriend.“It’s one of the best scripts I’ve ever read,” Liu said on a recent episode of Marc Maron’s WTF podcast. “I think it’ll surprise a lot of people because I think a lot of people get cynical when they see Mattel or they see…