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Towards optimal experimentation in online systems

The Unofficial Google Data Science Blog

To find optimal values of two parameters experimentally, the obvious strategy would be to experiment with and update them in separate, sequential stages. However, if we experiment with both parameters at the same time we will learn something about interactions between these system parameters.

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Defining data science in 2018

Data Science and Beyond

I got my first data science job in 2012, the year Harvard Business Review announced data scientist to be the sexiest job of the 21st century. As I was wrapping up my PhD in 2012, I started thinking about my next steps. Things have changed considerably since 2012. What do I actually do here?

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Real-Real-World Programming with ChatGPT

O'Reilly on Data

To provide some coherence to the music, I decided to use Taylor Swift songs since her discography covers the time span of most papers that I typically read: Her main albums were released in 2006, 2008, 2010, 2012, 2014, 2017, 2019, 2020, and 2022. This choice also inspired me to call my project Swift Papers.