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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. In isolation, the $x_1$-system is optimal: changing $x_1$ and leaving the $x_2$ at 0 will decrease system performance.

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Data Science, Past & Future

Domino Data Lab

He was saying this doesn’t belong just in statistics. He also really informed a lot of the early thinking about data visualization. It involved a lot of work with applied math, some depth in statistics and visualization, and also a lot of communication skills. Those are nice problems to have. Roll the clock out.

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Building a Better Tomorrow with Open Source Analytics Tools

Sisense

Whether the goal is to present data via simple visualizations, connect it to a robust BI tool, or anything else you want to do, having an open source option gives you the power and control you need to get the job done. Originally created in 2006, it’s one of the most popular open source BI tools. That’s something Hadoop excels at.

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Fitting Bayesian structural time series with the bsts R package

The Unofficial Google Data Science Blog

SCOTT Time series data are everywhere, but time series modeling is a fairly specialized area within statistics and data science. They may contain parameters in the statistical sense, but often they simply contain strategically placed 0's and 1's indicating which bits of $alpha_t$ are relevant for a particular computation. by STEVEN L.

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Using random effects models in prediction problems

The Unofficial Google Data Science Blog

We often use statistical models to summarize the variation in our data, and random effects models are well suited for this — they are a form of ANOVA after all. Often our data can be stored or visualized as a table like the one shown below. Cambridge University Press, (2006). [2] bandit problems). ICML, (2005). [3]