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Methods of Study Design – Experiments

Data Science 101

Researchers/ scientists perform experiments to validate their hypothesis/ statements or to test a new product. Suppose we want to test the effectiveness of a new drug against a particular disease. Let the number of literate people increased by 5000 in 2010-2020 whereas 3500 in 2000-2010. REFERENCES. McCabe & B.

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What Where They Thinking?

Andrew White

Statistically the rate of fatal accidents increases in those stretches of road that follow such signs! And that was between 2010 and 2017. Or maybe at the DOT location where emissions are tested. Data Sharing – The Wrong Way? One week in four the fatal road deaths are shown. So, it looks solid. Surly everyone knows that.

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What Are the Most Important Steps to Protect Your Organization’s Data?

Smart Data Collective

Based on figures from Statista , the volume of data breaches increased from 2005 to 2008, then dropped in 2009 and rose again in 2010 until it dropped again in 2011. One of the best solutions for data protection is advanced automated penetration testing. The instances of data breaches in the United States are rather interesting.

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Humans and AI: AI, Marketing, and Behavioral Economics

DataRobot

The Behavioural Insights Team, also known unofficially as the “Nudge Unit,” was founded by the UK government in 2010 to use behavioral science to make public policies and services more effective. The Behavioural Insights Team ran an experiment, testing four variations to the language used in reminder letters on a trial group.

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Five Sweet Web Analytics Resolutions To Kick It Up A Notch

Occam's Razor

Before all the excitement of the new year wears out, here are five simple things I would love for you to try so that your company will have a glorious truly data driven 2010! #1: 2 Learn basic statistics. For all of the above reasons it is becoming ever more important that you are know atleast Statistics 101. 1: Don't suck.

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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. We offer two examples where this may be the case.

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Using random effects models in prediction problems

The Unofficial Google Data Science Blog

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. both L1 and L2 penalties; see [8]) which were tuned for test set accuracy (log likelihood). Journal of the American Statistical Association 68.341 (1973): 117-130. [5]