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Robust Experimentation and Testing | Reasons for Failure!

Occam's Razor

Since you're reading a blog on advanced analytics, I'm going to assume that you have been exposed to the magical and amazing awesomeness of experimentation and testing. And yet, chances are you really don’t know anyone directly who uses experimentation as a part of their regular business practice. Wah wah wah waaah.

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Towards optimal experimentation in online systems

The Unofficial Google Data Science Blog

the weight given to Likes in our video recommendation algorithm) while $Y$ is a vector of outcome measures such as different metrics of user experience (e.g., This blog post discusses such a comprehensive approach that is used at Youtube. Figure 2: Spreading measurements out makes estimates of model (slope of line) more accurate.

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Practical Skills for The AI Product Manager

O'Reilly on Data

AI PMs should enter feature development and experimentation phases only after deciding what problem they want to solve as precisely as possible, and placing the problem into one of these categories. Experimentation: It’s just not possible to create a product by building, evaluating, and deploying a single model.

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Business Strategies for Deploying Disruptive Tech: Generative AI and ChatGPT

Rocket-Powered Data Science

encouraging and rewarding) a culture of experimentation across the organization. These rules are not necessarily “Rocket Science” (despite the name of this blog site), but they are common business sense for most business-disruptive technology implementations in enterprises. Test early and often.

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Do You Need a DataOps Dojo?

DataKitchen

Centralizing analytics helps the organization standardize enterprise-wide measurements and metrics. Central DataOps process measurement function with reports. A COE typically has a full-time staff that focuses on delivering value for customers in an experimentation-driven, iterative, result-oriented, customer-focused way.

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What is a DataOps Engineer?

DataKitchen

DataOps enables: Rapid experimentation and innovation for the fastest delivery of new insights to customers. Clear measurement and monitoring of results. In this blog, we’ll explore the role of the DataOps Engineer in driving the data organization to higher levels of productivity. Measure success. Low error rates.

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Changing assignment weights with time-based confounders

The Unofficial Google Data Science Blog

Instead, we focus on the case where an experimenter has decided to run a full traffic ramp-up experiment and wants to use the data from all of the epochs in the analysis. When there are changing assignment weights and time-based confounders, this complication must be considered either in the analysis or the experimental design.