Occam's Razor

APRIL 8, 2013

We are far too enamored with data collection and reporting the standard metrics we love because others love them because someone else said they were nice so many years ago. Sometimes, we escape the clutches of this sub optimal existence and do pick good metrics or engage in simple A/B testing. Online, offline or nonline.

Metrics 156

Metrics KPI Analytics Key Performance Indicator 156

The Unofficial Google Data Science Blog

APRIL 17, 2017

Our team of data scientists and software engineers in Search Infrastructure was already engaged in a particular type of forecasting. They can arise from data collection errors or other unlikely-to-repeat causes such as an outage somewhere on the Internet. Forecasting data and methods". [2] Specifically, see "1.4

Forecasting 83

Forecasting Modeling Statistics Uncertainty 83

Occam's Razor

FEBRUARY 22, 2010

Feel better? : ) When should you start doing paid search advertising for tours to Italy for 2011? It is simply magnificent what you can do with freely available data on the web about your direct competitors, your industry segment and indeed how people behave on search engines and other websites. In May 2010 (!).

Metrics 123

Metrics Advertising Reporting Software 123

Domino Data Lab

MARCH 3, 2019

Then, when we received 11,400 responses, the next step became obvious to a duo of data scientists on the receiving end of that data collection. Over the past six months, Ben Lorica and I have conducted three surveys about “ABC” (AI, Big Data, Cloud) adoption in enterprise. Spark, Kafka, TensorFlow, Snowflake, etc.,

Data Science 49

Data Science Deep Learning Machine Learning Modeling 49

The Unofficial Google Data Science Blog

OCTOBER 12, 2017

1]" Statistics, as a discipline, was largely developed in a small data world. Data was expensive to gather, and therefore decisions to collect data were generally well-considered. As computing and storage have made data collection cheaper and easier, we now gather data without this underlying motivation.

Experimentation 61

Experimentation Testing Statistics Metrics 61