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To Balance or Not to Balance?

The Unofficial Google Data Science Blog

Your company has recently launched a new pickup truck, along with the corresponding online advertisement campaign. A naïve way to solve this problem would be to compare the proportion of buyers between the exposed and unexposed groups, using a simple test for equality of means. For a random sample of units, indexed by $i = 1.

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Data Science at The New York Times

Domino Data Lab

As advertised, I split my time between Columbia and The New York Times where I’m leading the data science group. In 2001, Bill Cleveland writes this article saying, “You are doing it wrong.” They had all of the telecommunications for this country which means plenty of other data, but that’s another talk.

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Themes and Conferences per Pacoid, Episode 12

Domino Data Lab

Consider the following timeline: 2001 – Physics grad students are getting hired in quantity by hedge funds to work on Wall St. to join data science teams, e.g., to support advertising, social networks, gaming, and so on—I hired more than a few. following a breakthrough paper or two, plus changes in market microstructure).