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Measuring Validity and Reliability of Human Ratings

The Unofficial Google Data Science Blog

E ven after we account for disagreement, human ratings may not measure exactly what we want to measure. Overview Human-labeled data is ubiquitous in business and science, and platforms for obtaining data from people have become increasingly common. And for thousands of years, measurement was as simple as this.

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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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Big Data Paves The Way For Fantastic New Social Listening Tools

Smart Data Collective

Social media monitoring involves collecting data and is quantifiable. For example, it hones in on metrics in social media like retweets, engagement rates, mention, and story completions. million in Series B in 2010, and was quickly acquired by Twitter for $40 million in 2011.

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Unintentional data

The Unofficial Google Data Science Blog

Implicitly, there was a prior belief about some interesting causal mechanism or an underlying hypothesis motivating the collection of the data. As computing and storage have made data collection cheaper and easier, we now gather data without this underlying motivation. And for good reason!

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Unlock The Power of Your Data With These 19 Big Data & Data Analytics Books

datapine

Whether you are a complete novice or a seasoned BI professional, you will find here some books on data analytics that will help you cultivate your understanding of this essential field. Before we delve deeper into the best books for data analytics, here are three big data insights to put their relevance and importance into perspective.

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