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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., Experiments, Parameters and Models At Youtube, the relationships between system parameters and metrics often seem simple — straight-line models sometimes fit our data well.

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Rising Tide Rents and Robber Baron Rents

O'Reilly on Data

But in 2013 and 2014, it remained stuck at 83% , and while in the ten years since, it has reached 95% , it had become clear that the easy money that came from acquiring more users was ending. The next generation will shape human cognition, creativity, and interaction even more profoundly. The market was maturing.

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Thermo Fisher transforms its customer experience

CIO Business Intelligence

in 2013, Alfa Aesar in 2015, Affymetrix and FEI Co. With more than 10 million transactions and interactions per year across order entry, sales, and customer service, the company found those processes could not scale to meet the demand and deliver the experience its customers needed. in 2016, and BD Advanced Bioprocessing in 2018.

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Be Real-World Smart: A Beginner's Advanced Google Analytics Guide

Occam's Razor

Along the way I'll share some of my favourite metrics and analytics best practices that should accelerate your path to becoming a true Analysis Ninja. At this point you'll be a little confused about some metric or the other. Go, read one of the best pages in the Analytics help center: Understanding Dimensions and Metrics.

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Benchmarking Performance: Your Options, Dos, Don'ts and To-Die-Fors!

Occam's Razor

Here's the complete year 2013… While the numbers for individual month are different, you can see that October spiked and then things came down to below Sept performance by December. Conversion rate is one of those metrics that I strongly encourage you only create benchmarks for from your own data. or Weightwatchers.co.uk

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Perform time series forecasting using Amazon Redshift ML and Amazon Forecast

AWS Big Data

The OBJECTIVE parameter specifies a metric to minimize or maximize the objective of a job. Historical RTS datasets contain data points up to the forecast horizon, and don’t contain any data points within the forecast horizon. For this use case, we use a modified version of the Bike Sharing Dataset (Fanaee-T,Hadi. Bike Sharing Dataset.

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YouTube Marketing And Analytics: A Primer For Magnificent Success

Occam's Razor

According to Nielsen, YouTube reaches more US adults ages 18-34 than any cable network as of mid-2013. As of March 2013, one billion, (B!), One more thing to ponder… One hundred hours of video is uploaded into YouTube every single minute, as of May 2013. I'm not a fan of compound metrics. How cool is that!

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