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Rising Tide Rents and Robber Baron Rents

O'Reilly on Data

Why is it that Amazon, which has positioned itself as “the most customer-centric company on the planet,” now lards its search results with advertisements, placing them ahead of the customer-centric results chosen by the company’s organic search algorithms, which prioritize a combination of low price, high customer ratings, and other similar factors?

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7 Ways to End Dead Digital Weight on Your Website with Analytics

Smart Data Collective

Google Analytics wasn’t launched until 2005. Web optimization positively impacts your revenue, whether you profit from advertising or sales via content distribution. You can track every performance component, including network bandwidth usage, user interaction patterns, and system response times.

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Using random effects models in prediction problems

The Unofficial Google Data Science Blog

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Stuff Harvard People Like

Edwin Chen

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