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Measuring Validity and Reliability of Human Ratings

The Unofficial Google Data Science Blog

E ven after we account for disagreement, human ratings may not measure exactly what we want to measure. Researchers and practitioners have been using human-labeled data for many years, trying to understand all sorts of abstract concepts that we could not measure otherwise. That’s the focus of this blog post.

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Changing assignment weights with time-based confounders

The Unofficial Google Data Science Blog

For example, consider a smaller website that is considering adding a video hosting feature to increase engagement on the site. The fantasy football and video hosting examples, which we will discuss in more detail later, highlight situations where this design might be considered, despite potential complexity in the analysis.

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Opening the Shrinking Global Space for Civil Society

Cloudera

And, while measuring the global progress on human rights is still a work in progress, assessments at the country level confirm what we see daily on the news. Sadly, more than 80 years later his statement is as relevant today as it was in 1946.