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Experiment design and modeling for long-term studies in ads

The Unofficial Google Data Science Blog

by HENNING HOHNHOLD, DEIRDRE O'BRIEN, and DIANE TANG In this post we discuss the challenges in measuring and modeling the long-term effect of ads on user behavior. Nevertheless, A/B testing has challenges and blind spots, such as: the difficulty of identifying suitable metrics that give "works well" a measurable meaning.

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ML internals: Synthetic Minority Oversampling (SMOTE) Technique

Domino Data Lab

This renders measures like classification accuracy meaningless. The use of multiple measurements in taxonomic problems. Proceedings of the Fourth International Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining, 73–79. A weighted nearest neighbor algorithm for learning with symbolic features. Machine Learning, 57–78.