AWS Big Data

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

Solution overview GoDaddy’s intelligent compute platform envisions simplification of compute operations for all personas, without limiting power users, to ensure out-of-box cost and performance optimization for data and ML workloads. Gather relevant metrics from the tests. Analyze results to draw insights and conclusions. HCatalog 3.1.3

Cost-Benefit 87

Cost-Benefit Big Data Testing Optimization 87

Occam's Razor

MAY 22, 2006

This post is a primer on the delightful world of testing and experimentation (A/B, Multivariate, and a new term from me: Experience Testing). Experimentation and testing help us figure out we are wrong, quickly and repeatedly and if you think about it that is a great thing for our customers, and for our employers.

Experimentation 103

Experimentation Testing Optimization Measurement 103

Occam's Razor

JULY 24, 2018

work (collection, processing, reporting, analysis), processes, org structure, governance models, last-mile gaps , metrics ladders of awesomeness , and… so… much… more. Remember, tools, work, processes, org structure, governance models, last-mile gaps, metrics ladders of awesomeness, and… so… much… more. The Implications of Complexity.

Analytics 93

Analytics Metrics Strategy Measurement 93

Domino Data Lab

SEPTEMBER 10, 2020

This means many projects get stuck in endless research and experimentation. A concise goal (“I want to save costs by optimizing my store staffing roster”) is much more likely to lead to a successful initiative than a broad statement (“I want to increase revenue in my retail stores”). Identify metrics that measure this variability.

Modeling 101

Modeling IT Data Science Experimentation 101

DataRobot Blog

JULY 28, 2022

Of course, finding a compromise is necessary to a certain degree, but rather than simply compromising, finding the optimal solution within that trade-off is the key to creating maximum business value. For example, data measured by sensors can contain all kinds of noise due to sensor malfunctions, environmental changes, etc.,

Data Science 72

Data Science Machine Learning Statistics Modeling 72

The Unofficial Google Data Science Blog

OCTOBER 7, 2015

by HENNING HOHNHOLD, DEIRDRE O'BRIEN, and DIANE TANG In this post we discuss the challenges in measuring and modeling the long-term effect of ads on user behavior. Nevertheless, A/B testing has challenges and blind spots, such as: the difficulty of identifying suitable metrics that give "works well" a measurable meaning.

Modeling 61

Modeling Experimentation Knowledge Discovery Testing 61

Occam's Razor

AUGUST 22, 2011

" ~ Web Metrics: "What is a KPI? " + Standard Metrics Revisited Series. Key To Your Digital Success: Web Analytics Measurement Model. " Measuring Incrementality: Controlled Experiments to the Rescue! Barriers To An Effective Web Measurement Strategy [+ Solutions!]. How Do I Measure Success?

KPI 124

KPI Metrics Measurement ROI 124

Occam's Razor

OCTOBER 21, 2013

As an analyst, I was upset that this change would hurt my ability to analyze the effectiveness of my beloved search engine optimization (SEO) efforts – which are really all about finding the right users using optimal content strategies. These changes impact my AdWords spend sub-optimally. What Is Not Going Away.

Optimization 154

Optimization Reporting Experimentation Metrics 154

Occam's Razor

NOVEMBER 12, 2006

Mostly because short term goals drive a lot of what we do and if you are selling something on your website then it only seems to make logical sense that we measure conversion rate and get it up as high as we can as fast as we can. So measure Bounce Rate of your website. Even though we should not obsess about conversion rate we do.

Measurement 99

Measurement Analytics Optimization Marketing 99

Cloudera

FEBRUARY 16, 2022

blueberry spacing) is a measure of the model’s interpretability. Support for multiple sessions within a project allows data scientists, engineers and operations teams to work independently alongside each other on experimentation, pipeline development, deployment and monitoring activities in parallel. Model Visibility.

Machine Learning 81

Machine Learning Modeling Metadata Recreation/Entertainment 81

CIO Business Intelligence

MAY 1, 2024

Pilots can offer value beyond just experimentation, of course. McKinsey reports that industrial design teams using LLM-powered summaries of user research and AI-generated images for ideation and experimentation sometimes see a reduction upward of 70% in product development cycle times. What are you measuring?

Cost-Benefit 138

Cost-Benefit Metrics Insurance Measurement 138

O'Reilly on Data

MAY 14, 2020

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.

Management 363

Management Experimentation B2B Machine Learning 363

Occam's Razor

NOVEMBER 13, 2009

Chapter 2 The Optimal Strategy for Choosing Your Web Analytics Soul Mate. Chapter 3 The Awesome World of Clickstream Analysis: Metrics. The second half shows exactly how to pick the best metrics for your org and, my absolute favorite (Page 64), how to diagnose the root cause of a metrics performance. A good thing.

Analytics 71

Analytics Metrics Measurement Testing 71

Occam's Razor

JULY 18, 2011

To not have it as an active part of your marketing portfolio is sub-optimal. You just have to have the right mental model (see Seth Godin above) and you have to… wait for it… wait for it… measure everything you do! You must use metrics that are unique to the medium. Ready for the best email marketing campaign metrics?

Metrics 137

Metrics Marketing Measurement Cost-Benefit 137

Occam's Razor

SEPTEMBER 15, 2014

Company UX leaders are happy to stink less by taking the sub-optimal path of responsive design, rather than create a mobile-unique experience (your customers tend to do different things on your desktop site than your mobile site!). Create a distinct mobile website and mobile app measurement strategies. Implement Cross-Device Tracking.

Metrics 141

Metrics Reporting Analytics Marketing 141

datapine

FEBRUARY 4, 2020

Management thinker Peter Drucker once stated, “if you can’t measure it, you can’t improve it” – and he couldn’t be more right. Structure your metrics. As with any report you might need to create, structuring and implementing metrics that will tell an interesting and educational data-story is crucial in our digital age.

Reporting 280

Reporting Marketing Advertising Metrics 280

Occam's Razor

FEBRUARY 26, 2008

1: Implement a Experimentation & Testing Program. # 1: Implement a Experimentation & Testing Program. The Google Website Optimizer is free ! Experimentation and Testing: A Primer. Build A Great Web Experimentation & Testing Program. # Experimentation and Testing: A Primer. 6: If All Else Fails.

Management 68

Management Experimentation Testing Strategy 68

The Unofficial Google Data Science Blog

JUNE 30, 2016

In an ideal world, experimentation through randomization of the treatment assignment allows the identification and consistent estimation of causal effects. It should be noted that inverse probability weighting is not generally optimal (i.e., This is often referred to as the positivity assumption. the curse of dimensionality).

Statistics 44

Statistics Optimization Modeling Experimentation 44

DataKitchen

APRIL 13, 2021

Observe, optimize, and scale enterprise data pipelines. . DataOps requires that teams measure their analytic processes in order to see how they are improving over time. A complete DataOps program will have a unified, system-wide view of process metrics using a common data store. Monte Carlo Data — Data reliability delivered.

Testing 300

Testing Machine Learning Consulting Data Quality 300

Occam's Razor

JUNE 6, 2007

Bonus: Interactive CD: Contains six podcasts, one video, two web analytics metrics definitions documents and five insightful powerpoint presentations. Experimentation & Testing (A/B, Multivariate, you name it). What's the optimal organization structure (and who should own web analytics!)? Qualitative and quantitative.

Analytics 60

Analytics Metrics Marketing Dashboards 60

The Unofficial Google Data Science Blog

APRIL 16, 2019

by MICHAEL FORTE Large-scale live experimentation is a big part of online product development. This means a small and growing product has to use experimentation differently and very carefully. This blog post is about experimentation in this regime. Such decisions involve an actual hypothesis test on specific metrics (e.g.

Experimentation 68

Experimentation Sales Metrics Measurement 68

Occam's Razor

FEBRUARY 28, 2017

To ensure customer delight was delivered in a timely manner, it was also decided that Average Call Time (ACT) would now be The success metric. The success metric, ACT, did go down. The qualitative surveys measuring unhappiness went down even more than before. Metrics matter. You are what you measure.

Key Performance Indicator 106

Key Performance Indicator Metrics Measurement Advertising 106

Domino Data Lab

JUNE 23, 2019

Skomoroch proposes that managing ML projects are challenging for organizations because shipping ML projects requires an experimental culture that fundamentally changes how many companies approach building and shipping software. These measurement-obsessed companies have an advantage when it comes to AI. That’s another pattern.

Management 110

Management Machine Learning Experimentation Metrics 110

Occam's Razor

AUGUST 12, 2013

I strongly encourage you to read the post and deeply understand all three and what your marketing and measurement possibilities and limitations are. The outcome in either scenario is a restructuring of the organization that is exquisitely geared towards taking advantage of portfolio optimization. All three challenges are important.

Modeling 161

Modeling Optimization Marketing Interactive 161

Occam's Razor

DECEMBER 12, 2016

Digital Marketing & Measurement Model. My solution to this, incredibly real and frustrating problem, is to insist on seeing the signed in blood version of the company's Digital Marketing & Measurement Model. What one critical metric will help you clearly measure performance for each strategy above?

Analytics 141

Analytics Data-driven Strategy Consulting 141

Corinium

APRIL 25, 2019

For example, P&C insurance strives to understand its customers and households better through data, to provide better customer service and anticipate insurance needs, as well as accurately measure risks. Life insurance needs accurate data on consumer health, age and other metrics of risk.

Insurance 150

Insurance Risk IoT Cost-Benefit 150

AWS Big Data

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

With a combination of low-latency data streaming and analytics, they are able to understand and personalize the user experience via a seamlessly integrated, self-reliant system for experimentation and automated feedback. Real-time streaming data technologies are essential for digital transformation.

IoT 56

IoT Data-driven Data Lake Data Strategy 56

AWS Big Data

JULY 26, 2023

The vector engine supports the popular distance metrics such as Euclidean, cosine similarity, and dot product, and can accommodate 16,000 dimensions, making it well-suited to support a wide range of foundational and other AI/ML models. To create the vector index, you must define the vector field name, dimensions, and the distance metric.

Metadata 52

Metadata Cost-Benefit Testing Metrics 52

Occam's Razor

JULY 26, 2010

If today you are a content site that is only focused on measuring content consumed try to go deeper to understanding CPA of the ads or Visitor Loyalty. PALM: People Against Lonely Metrics]. So why not your metrics? This is the problem with lonely metrics. Never ever never never never ever present any metric all by itself.

Metrics 96

Metrics Measurement Dashboards Reporting 96

Occam's Razor

AUGUST 13, 2012

Yehoshua Coren: Best ways to measure user behavior in a multi-touch, multi-device digital world. What's possible to measure. What's not possible to measure. We all have smart phones, laptops, tablets and soon Smart TVs – but most of our measurements are usually done in Cookies that are device/browser specific.

Modeling 124

Modeling Metrics Data Quality Data-driven 124

Occam's Razor

SEPTEMBER 30, 2013

Each of the six visuals re-frames a unique facet of the digital opportunity/challenge, and shares how to optimally take advantage of the opportunity/challenge. It is also immensely beneficial for search engine optimization (great content, delivered fresh, every day!). Then that is all they optimize for. And so on and so forth.

Marketing Analytics 154

Marketing Analytics Marketing Visualization Analytics 154

Occam's Razor

MARCH 23, 2010

My problem with these mistruths and FUD is that they result in a ton of practitioners and companies making profoundly sub optimal choices, which in turn results in not just much longer slogs but also spectacular career implosions and the entire web analytics industry suffering. This is sad. Even a little frustrating. Likely not.

Analytics 118

Analytics Consulting Metrics Experimentation 118

Cloudera

JUNE 6, 2019

This strategy works well for managing internal chargebacks, limiting the impact of less sophisticated users on more experienced users, and overall encouraging individuals to think about and optimize their jobs and queries now that they have a smaller (but dedicated) cluster. 2) By workload type. 3) By workload priority.

Metadata 85

Metadata Data Lake Optimization Strategy 85

Domino Data Lab

FEBRUARY 4, 2019

Spoiler alert: a research field called curiosity-driven learning is emerging at the nexis of experimental cognitive psychology and industry use cases for machine learning, particularly in gaming AI. The ability to measure results (risk-reducing evidence). Ensure a culture that supports a steady process of learning and experimentation.

Data Science 66

Data Science Experimentation Data-driven Machine Learning 66

Domino Data Lab

MAY 8, 2019

Visualizations are vital in data science work, with the caveat that the information that they convey may be 4-5 layers of abstraction away from the actual business process being measured. measure the subjects’ ability to trust the models’ results. Information can get quite distorted after being abstracted that many times.

Machine Learning 105

Machine Learning Data Science Modeling Visualization 105

Occam's Razor

JANUARY 9, 2012

Most companies are astonishingly blasé about data and possibilities of measurement. " Sad, unimaginative measurements of their sad, unimaginative campaigns. All while constantly optimizing your portfolio via controlled experiments. I told 20 people that Nikon's site is slow and profoundly sub-optimal on mobile.

Marketing 140

Marketing B2B Measurement Risk 140

Occam's Razor

FEBRUARY 7, 2011

But each keyword gets "credit" for other metrics. Brian Krick: Best way to measure and communicate "available demand" from available channels (social, search, display) for forecast modeling. Additionally, it is exceptionally difficult to measure available demand because 1. Please see the advice above.

Analytics 94

Analytics Measurement Metrics Predictive Analytics 94