Occam's Razor

SEPTEMBER 19, 2011

This: You understand all the environmental variables currently in play, you carefully choose more than one group of "like type" subjects, you expose them to a different mix of media, measure differences in outcomes, prove / disprove your hypothesis (DO FACEBOOK NOW!!!), The nice thing is that you can also test that!

Measurement 119

Measurement Advertising Testing Marketing 119

Occam's Razor

AUGUST 22, 2011

Key To Your Digital Success: Web Analytics Measurement Model. " Measuring Incrementality: Controlled Experiments to the Rescue! Barriers To An Effective Web Measurement Strategy [+ Solutions!]. Measuring Online Engagement: What Role Does Web Analytics Play? "Engagement" How Do I Measure Success?

KPI 124

KPI Metrics Measurement ROI 124

Ontotext

MAY 26, 2021

Originally, the Gold Standard was a monetary system that required countries to fix the value of their currencies to a certain amount of gold, aiming to replace the unreliable human control with a fixed measurement that could be used by everyone. Simply put, we need to be able to measure and evaluate our results against clearly set criteria.

Data Quality 87

Data Quality Machine Learning Measurement Metadata 87

Occam's Razor

APRIL 8, 2013

Sometimes, we escape the clutches of this sub optimal existence and do pick good metrics or engage in simple A/B testing. First, you figure out what you want to improve; then you create an experiment; then you run the experiment; then you measure the results and decide what to do. Testing out a new feature. Form a hypothesis.

Metrics 156

Metrics KPI Analytics Key Performance Indicator 156

The Unofficial Google Data Science Blog

JUNE 30, 2016

A naïve way to solve this problem would be to compare the proportion of buyers between the exposed and unexposed groups, using a simple test for equality of means. Identification We now discuss formally the statistical problem of causal inference. We start by describing the problem using standard statistical notation.

Statistics 44

Statistics Optimization Modeling Experimentation 44

The Unofficial Google Data Science Blog

JULY 18, 2023

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.

Measurement 52

Measurement Metrics Uncertainty Slice and Dice 52

The Unofficial Google Data Science Blog

APRIL 23, 2024

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.

Experimentation 52

Experimentation Optimization Uncertainty Metrics 52