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Email Marketers Use Data Analytics for Optimal Customer Segmentation

Smart Data Collective

Like any other marketing strategy, you must measure email performance. Transactional data includes first and final purchases, products, number of purchases, date, statistics, typical order value, commodity purchase history, and total spending by a consumer. Digital workers measure almost anything they choose. Automation.

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To Balance or Not to Balance?

The Unofficial Google Data Science Blog

A naïve comparison of the exposed and unexposed groups would produce an overly optimistic measurement of the effect of the ad, since the exposed group has a higher baseline likelihood of purchasing a pickup truck. Identification We now discuss formally the statistical problem of causal inference. we drop the $i$ index.

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Estimating the prevalence of rare events — theory and practice

The Unofficial Google Data Science Blog

This problem can be phrased as an optimization problem — given some fixed review capacity how should we sample videos? But importance sampling in statistics is a variance reduction technique to improve the inference of the rate of rare events, and it seems natural to apply it to our prevalence estimation problem.

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