Occam's Razor

AUGUST 9, 2016

This is all the way from Aug 2009: Web Analytics Career Advice: Play In The Real World! Along the way I'll share some of my favourite metrics and analytics best practices that should accelerate your path to becoming a true Analysis Ninja. At this point you'll be a little confused about some metric or the other.

Analytics 109

Analytics Metrics Reporting Strategy 109

Domino Data Lab

MAY 20, 2021

Working with highly imbalanced data can be problematic in several aspects: Distorted performance metrics — In a highly imbalanced dataset, say a binary dataset with a class ratio of 98:2, an algorithm that always predicts the majority class and completely ignores the minority class will still be 98% correct. In their 2002 paper Chawla et al.

Machine Learning 136

Machine Learning Metrics Data mining Knowledge Discovery 136

Domino Data Lab

APRIL 21, 2021

from sklearn import metrics. There are different approaches to this strategy, with the two most commonly used being random oversampling and SMOTE. In this context, offsetting the threshold in a way that reduces the false negatives at the expense of false positives becomes a viable strategy. from datetime import datetime.

Statistics 69

Statistics Machine Learning Modeling Metrics 69

Occam's Razor

SEPTEMBER 4, 2012

2009 was the year of mobile. If your company has a non-stinky mobile website and mobile app then congratulations: you have successfully solved the problem of 2009! … But I was thrilled to see my utility marketing strategy in action! So, what is your company's mobile strategy? You'll cry most of the time.

Marketing 144

Marketing Data mining Measurement Strategy 144

The Unofficial Google Data Science Blog

NOVEMBER 17, 2020

When these concerns loom too large to ignore, data scientists and practitioners will generally adopt one of a few suboptimal strategies. Any model that is unable to make such a guarantee may be rejected for such policy reasons, regardless of its overall accuracy. With PLFs, we can even create unique and interesting types of regularization.

Machine Learning 108

Machine Learning Deep Learning Modeling Interactive 108

Peter James Thomas

OCTOBER 1, 2019

The single red line shows the actual value of some metric up to the middle section of the chart. The inimitable Randall Munroe of xkcd.com [7] explains this pithility as follows: | © Randall Munroe, xkcd.com (2009) | Excerpted from: Extrapolating |. Thereafter it is the central prediction of a range of possible values.

Sales 61

Sales Measurement Statistics Data Architecture 61

datapine

JANUARY 31, 2022

Chantrelle Nielsen director of research and strategy for Workplace analytics said: “companies must take these metrics and direct them thoughtfully towards the design of office spaces that maximize face time over just screen time.” This company was originally founded in 2009 as a black car-hailing service in San Francisco.

Business Intelligence 214

Business Intelligence Analytics Cost-Benefit ROI 214