The Unofficial Google Data Science Blog

APRIL 23, 2024

If $Y$ at that point is (statistically and practically) significantly better than our current operating point, and that point is deemed acceptable, we update the system parameters to this better value. In isolation, the $x_1$-system is optimal: changing $x_1$ and leaving the $x_2$ at 0 will decrease system performance.

Experimentation 52

Experimentation Optimization Uncertainty Metrics 52

AWS Big Data

MARCH 12, 2024

AWS Glue Data Quality reduces the effort required to validate data from days to hours, and provides computing recommendations, statistics, and insights about the resources required to run data validation. In this post, we provide benchmark results of running increasingly complex data quality rulesets over a predefined test dataset.

Data Quality 85

Data Quality Measurement Testing Visualization 85

Domino Data Lab

APRIL 21, 2021

In contrast, the decision tree classifies observations based on attribute splits learned from the statistical properties of the training data. Machine Learning-based detection – using statistical learning is another approach that is gaining popularity, mostly because it is less laborious. 3f" % x) dataDF.describe().

Statistics 69

Statistics Machine Learning Modeling Metrics 69

The Unofficial Google Data Science Blog

OCTOBER 12, 2017

1]" Statistics, as a discipline, was largely developed in a small data world. Yet when we use these tools to explore data and look for anomalies or interesting features, we are implicitly formulating and testing hypotheses after we have observed the outcomes. We must correct for multiple hypothesis tests.

Experimentation 61

Experimentation Testing Statistics Metrics 61

The Unofficial Google Data Science Blog

JUNE 30, 2016

A naïve way to solve this problem would be to compare the proportion of buyers between the exposed and unexposed groups, using a simple test for equality of means. Identification We now discuss formally the statistical problem of causal inference. We start by describing the problem using standard statistical notation.

Statistics 44

Statistics Optimization Modeling Experimentation 44

Domino Data Lab

SEPTEMBER 25, 2019

A big part of statistics, particularly for financial and econometric data, is analyzing time series, data that are autocorrelated over time. Fortunately, the forecast package has a number of functions to make working with time series data easier, including determining the optimal number of diffs. The result is shown in Figure 24.4. >

Forecasting 87

Forecasting Modeling Statistics Optimization 87

The Unofficial Google Data Science Blog

MARCH 31, 2016

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). bandit problems).

Modeling 40

Modeling Statistics Advertising Testing 40