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The Lean Analytics Cycle: Metrics > Hypothesis > Experiment > Act

Occam's Razor

To win in business you need to follow this process: Metrics > Hypothesis > Experiment > Act. We are far too enamored with data collection and reporting the standard metrics we love because others love them because someone else said they were nice so many years ago. That metric is tied to a KPI.

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Understanding Simpson’s Paradox to Avoid Faulty Conclusions

Sisense

One of the simplest ways to start exploring your data is to aggregate the metrics you are interested in by their relevant dimensions. This is an example of Simpon’s paradox , a statistical phenomenon in which a trend that is present when data is put into groups reverses or disappears when the data is combined.

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Credit Card Fraud Detection using XGBoost, SMOTE, and threshold moving

Domino Data Lab

In contrast, the decision tree classifies observations based on attribute splits learned from the statistical properties of the training data. Machine Learning-based detection – using statistical learning is another approach that is gaining popularity, mostly because it is less laborious. from sklearn import metrics.

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Themes and Conferences per Pacoid, Episode 9

Domino Data Lab

If your “performance” metrics are focused on predictive power, then you’ll probably end up with more complex models, and consequently less interpretable ones. They also require advanced skills in statistics, experimental design, causal inference, and so on – more than most data science teams will have.

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The Definitive Guide To (8) Competitive Intelligence Data Sources!

Occam's Razor

For example, with Alexa , you can report on traffic statistics (such as rank and page views), upstream (where your traffic comes from) and downstream (where people go after visiting your site) statistics, and key-words driving traffic to a site. Check the definitions of various metrics. numbers for various industries.

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Adding Common Sense to Machine Learning with TensorFlow Lattice

The Unofficial Google Data Science Blog

On the one hand, basic statistical models (e.g. For example, consider the following simple example fitting a two-dimensional function to predict if someone will pass the bar exam based just on their GPA (grades) and LSAT (a standardized test) using the public dataset (Wightman, 1998). References Wightman, L. and Gupta, M. Pfeifer, J.,