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Where Meat-Buying Intuition Meets Artificial Intelligence:
Let’s Set The Stage: It’s July 2020 and Ryan from Meat Street Grocery and Taylor from Eagan Distribution are running their buying desks from home due to COVID-19. Because of the pandemic, Ryan and Taylor are both getting started early to ensure there are enough bone-in ribs on hand for...
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A New Era in Mining:
The COVID-19 pandemic is having an ever-evolving effect on the greater mining industry in 2020. Every day brings news of market shifts, idle sites, and disease reach. But if mining leaders are familiar with any sort of market condition, it’s one that is highly uncertain and rapidly evolving. This is...
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DecisionNext Announces Expanded Partnership With Johnsonville
The DecisionNext technology provides Johnsonville insights into sourcing, harvest planning and pricing. These insights allow the established sausage innovator the opportunity to develop more accurate long range plans to benefit the business and its customers. “We are thrilled to be working with a world-class analytics company like DecisionNext,” said Nick...
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DecisionNext Names Michael Farrand as Global Head of Food
Farrand remarked, "Having had the pleasure of working with the talented DecisionNext team over the past few months it became clear to me that our values and goals aligned well, and that there was real value in creating increased rigor around the food space, especially in our current business climate. The...
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Market Forecasting: how to do it, consume it, make it useful, and make it repeatable
How to do it 1. You want a simple model Simplicity is important. We are talking mathematical models to predict the future. And it is very tempting when building these models to add as many explanatory variables as you can to reduce model error. But that is the sort...
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