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Humans-in-the-loop forecasting: integrating data science and business planning

The Unofficial Google Data Science Blog

by THOMAS OLAVSON Thomas leads a team at Google called "Operations Data Science" that helps Google scale its infrastructure capacity optimally. In choosing the appropriate method, a key distinction lies in the business stakes associated with a given forecast publication cycle. If the costs of prediction error are asymmetric (e.g.