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How Do Super Rookies Start Learning Data Analysis?

FineReport

Data analysis is a type of knowledge discovery that gains insights from data and drives business decisions. Professional data analysts must have a wealth of business knowledge in order to know from the data what has happened and what is about to happen. For super rookies, the first task is to understand what data analysis is.

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Changing assignment weights with time-based confounders

The Unofficial Google Data Science Blog

For example, imagine a fantasy football site is considering displaying advanced player statistics. A ramp-up strategy may mitigate the risk of upsetting the site’s loyal users who perhaps have strong preferences for the current statistics that are shown. One reason to do ramp-up is to mitigate the risk of never before seen arms.