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Towards optimal experimentation in online systems

The Unofficial Google Data Science Blog

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.

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Excellent Analytics Tip #8: Measure the Real Conversion Rate & "Opportunity Pie"

Occam's Razor

Mostly because short term goals drive a lot of what we do and if you are selling something on your website then it only seems to make logical sense that we measure conversion rate and get it up as high as we can as fast as we can. So measure Bounce Rate of your website. Even though we should not obsess about conversion rate we do.

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Public cloud vs. private cloud vs. hybrid cloud: What’s the difference?

IBM Big Data Hub

Internet companies like Amazon led the charge with the introduction of Amazon Web Services (AWS) in 2002, which offered businesses cloud-based storage and computing services, and the launch of Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) in 2006, which allowed users to rent virtual computers to run their own applications.

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Dear Avinash: Your Digital Marketing + Analytics Challenges Answered

Occam's Razor

I am having issues prioritizing 1) recommending fixing on site issues affecting real traffic levels versus 2) correcting significant configuration issues in Analytics measuring current site traffic. Even the worst analytics configuration in the world will most likely allow you to measure cart and checkout abandonment rate. strategies).

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Best Web Metrics / KPIs for a Small, Medium or Large Sized Business

Occam's Razor

A/B & Multivariate tests are a good option. Try, test, measure, be rich. Google Analytics' native funnels are pretty sub optimal, ignore that entire feature.) You are a small sized business and these four simple key performance indicators will literally rock your world as soon as you start measuring them.

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Building a Named Entity Recognition model using a BiLSTM-CRF network

Domino Data Lab

from keras import optimizers from keras.models import Model from keras.models import Input from keras_contrib.layers import CRF from keras_contrib import losses from keras_contrib import metrics. Finally, we split the resulting dataset into a training and hold-out set, so that we can measure the performance of the classifier on unseen data.

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Web Analytics: Frequently Asked Questions And Direct Answers

Occam's Razor

Brian Krick: Best way to measure and communicate "available demand" from available channels (social, search, display) for forecast modeling. Additionally, it is exceptionally difficult to measure available demand because 1. See #1 in this post from 2006: Competitive Intelligence Analysis: Metrics, Tips & Best Practices.