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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. A/B testing is used widely in information technology companies to guide product development and improvements.

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ML internals: Synthetic Minority Oversampling (SMOTE) Technique

Domino Data Lab

This renders measures like classification accuracy meaningless. Their tests are performed using C4.5-generated note that this variant “performs worse than plain under-sampling based on AUC” when tested on the Adult dataset (Dua & Graff, 2017). The use of multiple measurements in taxonomic problems. Chawla et al.,