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Towards optimal experimentation in online systems

The Unofficial Google Data Science Blog

Crucially, it takes into account the uncertainty inherent in our experiments. To find optimal values of two parameters experimentally, the obvious strategy would be to experiment with and update them in separate, sequential stages. In this section we’ll discuss how we approach these two kinds of uncertainty with QCQP.

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Changing assignment weights with time-based confounders

The Unofficial Google Data Science Blog

Instead, we focus on the case where an experimenter has decided to run a full traffic ramp-up experiment and wants to use the data from all of the epochs in the analysis. When there are changing assignment weights and time-based confounders, this complication must be considered either in the analysis or the experimental design.

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The Lean Analytics Cycle: Metrics > Hypothesis > Experiment > Act

Occam's Razor

We are far too enamored with data collection and reporting the standard metrics we love because others love them because someone else said they were nice so many years ago. Circle of Friends was a social community built atop Facebook that launched in 2007. They might deal with uncertainty, but they're not random.

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Estimating causal effects using geo experiments

The Unofficial Google Data Science Blog

A geo experiment is an experiment where the experimental units are defined by geographic regions. The expected precision of our inferences can be computed by simulating possible experimental outcomes. Cambridge, 2007. Wouldn't it be great if we didn't require individual data to estimate an aggregate effect?