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Towards optimal experimentation in online systems

The Unofficial Google Data Science Blog

If $Y$ at that point is (statistically and practically) significantly better than our current operating point, and that point is deemed acceptable, we update the system parameters to this better value. And we can keep repeating this approach, relying on intuition and luck. Why experiment with several parameters concurrently?

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Analytics On The Bleeding Edge: Transforming Data's Influence

Occam's Razor

A key part of how this manifested in our work was doing truly super-advanced machine-learning powered analysis to answer hard questions that few can successfully. From 2006: Is Real-Time Analytics Really Relevant? ). This is of course exciting and very cool. More shouting is not really better – and it is expensive!

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