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Changing assignment weights with time-based confounders

The Unofficial Google Data Science Blog

For example, imagine a fantasy football site is considering displaying advanced player statistics. A ramp-up strategy may mitigate the risk of upsetting the site’s loyal users who perhaps have strong preferences for the current statistics that are shown. One reason to do ramp-up is to mitigate the risk of never before seen arms.

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New Thinking, Old Thinking and a Fairytale

Peter James Thomas

Of course it can be argued that you can use statistics (and Google Trends in particular) to prove anything [1] , but I found the above figures striking. Here we come back to the upward trend in searches for Data Science. King was a wise King, but now he was gripped with uncertainty. – CIO.com 2010. “61%

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Using random effects models in prediction problems

The Unofficial Google Data Science Blog

Far from hypothetical, we have encountered these issues in our experiences with "big data" prediction problems. We often use statistical models to summarize the variation in our data, and random effects models are well suited for this — they are a form of ANOVA after all. bandit problems). 5] Anoop Korattikara, et al.