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Experiment design and modeling for long-term studies in ads

The Unofficial Google Data Science Blog

A/B testing is used widely in information technology companies to guide product development and improvements. For questions as disparate as website design and UI, prediction algorithms, or user flows within apps, live traffic tests help developers understand what works well for users and the business, and what doesn’t.

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ML internals: Synthetic Minority Oversampling (SMOTE) Technique

Domino Data Lab

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). Proceedings of the Fourth International Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining, 73–79. Chawla et al., 1998) and others).