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Perform time series forecasting using Amazon Redshift ML and Amazon Forecast

AWS Big Data

Forecasting acts as a planning tool to help enterprises prepare for the uncertainty that can occur in the future. The data contains measurements of electric power consumption in different households for the year 2014. The OBJECTIVE parameter specifies a metric to minimize or maximize the objective of a job.

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Towards optimal experimentation in online systems

The Unofficial Google Data Science Blog

the weight given to Likes in our video recommendation algorithm) while $Y$ is a vector of outcome measures such as different metrics of user experience (e.g., Crucially, it takes into account the uncertainty inherent in our experiments. the fraction of video recommendations resulted in positive user experiences).

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Estimating the prevalence of rare events — theory and practice

The Unofficial Google Data Science Blog

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.

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Themes and Conferences per Pacoid, Episode 10

Domino Data Lab

I recall a “Data Drinkup Group” gathering at a pub in Palo Alto, circa 2012, where I overheard Pete Skomoroch talking with other data scientists about Kahneman’s work. Clearly, when we work with data and machine learning, we’re swimming in those waters of decision-making under uncertainty. Worse than flipping a coin!

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Estimating causal effects using geo experiments

The Unofficial Google Data Science Blog

It is important that we can measure the effect of these offline conversions as well. Panel studies make it possible to measure user behavior along with the exposure to ads and other online elements. Let's take a look at larger groups of individuals whose aggregate behavior we can measure. days or weeks).