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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. Figure 2: Spreading measurements out makes estimates of model (slope of line) more accurate.

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The Luck of The Irish: The Rise in Air Traffic & Irish Economic Growth

Sisense

Economic performance was measured by GDP, and this is where modern Irish economic history and our study intersect. And, since 2013, Irish GDP has grown by 50 percent, placing Ireland ahead of China in global growth terms. The study looked at both air freight and air passenger traffic from the year 2000 to 2017. Our GoFigure!

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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. Prepare the data Refer to the following notebook for the steps needed to create this use case. Bike Sharing Dataset.

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Responses to Negative Data: Four Senior Leadership Archetypes.

Occam's Razor

A decade ago, data people delivered a lot less bad news because so little could be measured with any degree of confidence. In 2019, we can measure the crap out of so much. They bring up that one time in 2013 when your analysis missed an important assumption. Sadly still, negative data to the person/team receiving it.