O'Reilly on Data

APRIL 23, 2024

Google and Amazon were still atop their respective hills of web search and ecommerce in 2010, and Meta’s growth was still accelerating, but it was hard to miss that internet growth had begun to slow. Now a typical page of Amazon product search results consists of 16 ads and only four organic results. The market was maturing. I think not.

Advertising 265

Advertising Cost-Benefit Marketing Risk 265

CIO Business Intelligence

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

The early 2010’s practice of co-locating talent supercharged collaboration, but also limited organizations’ ability to scale with a workforce based in high-density, cost-prohibitive metros. Each of these companies above has also invested in technologies to streamline internal processes and reduce the operational risks of distributed teams.

Cost-Benefit 98

Cost-Benefit Measurement Modeling Strategy 98

The Unofficial Google Data Science Blog

AUGUST 27, 2019

Of course, any mistakes by the reviewers would propagate to the accuracy of the metrics, and the metrics calculation should take into account human errors. If we could separate bad videos from good videos perfectly, we could simply calculate the metrics directly without sampling. The missing verdicts create two problems.

Metrics 98

Metrics Statistics Uncertainty Optimization 98

Occam's Razor

MARCH 23, 2010

Because every tool uses its own sweet metrics definitions, cookie rules, session start and end rules and so much more. Yet case studies in some sense reduced risk, even if they were simply over blown marketing fluff written by the vendor. There is such little risk to actually trying. Why do I need a case study? Neither do you.

Analytics 118

Analytics Consulting Metrics Experimentation 118

Alation

APRIL 12, 2022

Between 2010 and 2018 the number of CDOs present in Fortune 1500 companies increased nearly 8-fold. On the other, a data free-for-all creates risk—not only of data leaks with regulatory penalties, but also of inefficiency, as the same work and assets may be duplicated across the organization. Protecting Sensitive Data.

Data Quality 52

Data Quality Data Governance Metrics Data Strategy 52

The Unofficial Google Data Science Blog

OCTOBER 12, 2017

With more features come more potential post hoc hypotheses about what is driving metrics of interest, and more opportunity for exploratory analysis. Looking at metrics of interest computed over subpopulations of large data sets, then trying to make sense of those differences, is an often recommended practice (even on this very blog).

Experimentation 61

Experimentation Testing Statistics Metrics 61

O'Reilly on Data

JANUARY 25, 2021

Observability” risks becoming the new name for monitoring. We don’t see that in our data, though there are certainly some metrics to say that artificial intelligence has stalled. It’s tempting to think of Flask and Vue as “new” platforms, but they were released in 2010 and 2014, respectively; they’ve had time to establish themselves.

Machine Learning 362

Machine Learning Software Testing Technology 362