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What’s the Difference: Quantitative vs Qualitative Data

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From product development to customer satisfaction, nearly every aspect of a business uses data and analytics to measure success and define strategies. Measures of central tendency. Traditional business analysis uses numerical methods to paint a picture, often through numerical methods, like statistics. Percentages.

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Towards optimal experimentation in online systems

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the weight given to Likes in our video recommendation algorithm) while $Y$ is a vector of outcome measures such as different metrics of user experience (e.g., Taking measurements at parameter settings further from control parameter settings leads to a lower variance estimate of the slope of the line relating the metric to the parameter.