Customer satisfaction is a potent metric that directly influences the profitability of an organization. Establishing highly efficient contact centers requires significant automation, the ability to scale, and a mechanism of active learning through customer feedback. There is a challenge at every point in the contact center customer journey--from long hold times at the beginning to operational costs associated with long average handle times. In traditional contact centers, one solution for long hold times is enabling self-service options for customers using an Interactive Voice Response system (IVR). An IVR uses a set of automated menu options to help reduce agent call volumes by addressing common frequently asked requests without involving a live agent.

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The production, shipping, usage, and disposal of consumer goods have a substantial impact on greenhouse gas emissions and the depletion of resources. Modern retail platforms rely heavily on Machine Learning (ML) for their search and recommender systems. Thus, ML can potentially support efforts towards more sustainable consumption patterns, for example, by accounting for sustainability aspects in product search or recommendations. However, leveraging ML potential for reaching sustainability goals requires data on sustainability. Unfortunately, no open and publicly available database integrates sustainability information on a product-by-product basis. In this work, we present the GreenDB, which fills this gap. Based on search logs of millions of users, we prioritize which products users care about most. The GreenDB schema extends the well-known schema.org Product definition and can be readily integrated into existing product catalogs to improve sustainability information available for search and recommendation experiences. We present our proof of concept implementation of a scraping system that creates the GreenDB dataset.

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As enterprises move from running ad hoc machine learning (ML) models to using AI/ML to transform their business at scale, the adoption of ML Operations (MLOps) becomes inevitable. As shown in the following figure, the ML lifecycle begins with framing a business problem as an ML use case followed by a series of phases, including data preparation, feature engineering, model building, deployment, continuous monitoring, and retraining. For many enterprises, a lot of these steps are still manual and loosely integrated with each other. Therefore, it's important to automate the end-to-end ML lifecycle, which enables frequent experiments to drive better business outcomes. Data preparation is one of the crucial steps in this lifecycle, because the ML model's accuracy depends on the quality of the training dataset.

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Warren B. Powell is Professor Emeritus at Princeton University, where he taught for 39 years, and is currently Chief Analytics Officer at Optimal Dynamics. He is the founder and director of CASTLE Labs, which developed models and algorithms in stochastic optimization, with applications to energy systems, transportation, health, e-commerce, and the laboratory sciences (see www.castlelab.princeton.edu). He has pioneered the use of approximate dynamic programming for high-dimensional applications, and the knowledge gradient for active learning problems. His recent work has focused on developing a unified framework for sequential decision problems under uncertainty, spanning active learning to a wide range of dynamic resource allocation problems. He has authored books on Approximate Dynamic Programming and (with Ilya Ryzhov) Optimal Learning, and is the author of Reinforcement Learning and Stochastic Optimization: A unified framework for sequential decisions.

As part of my annual tradition to tell you about how AWS makes Prime Day possible, I am happy to be able to share some chart-topping metrics (check out my 2016, 2017, 2019, 2020, and 2021 posts for a look back). My purchases this year included a first aid kit, some wood brown filament for my 3D printer, and a non-stick frying pan! According to our official news release, Prime members worldwide purchased more than 100,000 items per minute during Prime Day, with best-selling categories including Amazon Devices, Consumer Electronics, and Home. Powered by AWS As always, AWS played a critical role in making Prime Day a success. A multitude of two-pizza teams worked together to make sure that every part of our infrastructure was scaled, tested, and ready to serve our customers.

In the end, it came down to 213 thousandths of a second! That was the difference between the two best times in the finale of the first AWS AWS DeepRacer Student Wildcard event hosted in Ottawa, Canada this May. I watched in awe as 13 students competed in a live wildcard race for the AWS DeepRacer Student League, the first global autonomous racing league for students offering educational material and resources to get hands on and start with machine learning (ML). Students hit the starting line to put their ML skills to the test in Canada's capital where members of parliament cheered them on, including Parliamentary Secretary for Innovation, Science and Economic Development, Andy Fillmore. Daphne Hong, a fourth-year engineering student at the University of Calgary, won the race with a lap time of 11:167 seconds.

Elevating the customer experience is the top priority for corporate retailers; thus, it is vital that they investigate all the factors that contribute to it. With things returning to normalcy and relaxed COVID restrictions, retailers are now expecting better store footfalls. One of the essential elements in a retail checkout is a well-developed point-of-sale system or PoS application. What is a POS application? A PoS system combines hardware and software elements to facilitate merchant transactions between retailers and customers.