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The Lean Analytics Cycle: Metrics > Hypothesis > Experiment > Act

Occam's Razor

That metric is tied to a KPI. It's the target for your KPI. For each of them, write down the KPI you're measuring, and what that KPI should be for you to consider your efforts a success. We’re making an educated guess about what could improve the KPI based on what we learned in step 1.

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Data Science at The New York Times

Domino Data Lab

.” And this is one of his papers about “you’re doing it wrong” where he talked about the algorithmic culture that he was observing in the machine learning community versus the generative model community that was more traditional in statistics. Nobody paid any attention to it whatsoever until 2011.