The Unofficial Google Data Science Blog

JUNE 30, 2016

Other estimators, such as those based on matching and subclassification, may benefit from the balancing property, but the discussion of those estimators is postponed to a later post. It should be noted that inverse probability weighting is not generally optimal (i.e., Unfortunately, randomization is not possible in many situations.

Statistics 44

Statistics Optimization Modeling Experimentation 44

AWS Big Data

JULY 25, 2023

As their workload evolved, Alcion engineers tracked OpenSearch domain utilization via the provided Amazon CloudWatch metrics, making changes to increase storage and optimize their compute resources. To reduce costs and operational burden, the team turned to OpenSearch Serverless, which offers auto-scaling capability.

Cost-Benefit 77

Cost-Benefit Modeling Management Optimization 77

Occam's Razor

SEPTEMBER 15, 2014

In blue is how much time we spent in 2010 and in blue the time spent in 2014. was the dramatic shift between 2010 to 2014 to mobile content consumption. The downside is that this awesomeness comes at the cost of having to learn new things on top of my recommendation above. What was surprising, even to me (!), Many reasons.

Metrics 141

Metrics Reporting Analytics Marketing 141

datapine

FEBRUARY 23, 2023

Try our 14-day trial & benefit from visual data analysis today! Also, showing the relationship between selected multiple variables is not optimal for waterfall charts (also known as Cascade charts), as bubble plots or scatter plots would be a more effective solution. The numbers we are working with are relative only to our total.

Visualization 177

Visualization Dashboards Sales Measurement 177

Occam's Razor

JUNE 11, 2014

In 2014 those numbers are 5:46 for digital and 4:28 on TV. In early 2014 that number is 2 hours and 51 minutes! It is 2014 after all. I click on Paypal and then Continue and I get my review page for the costs and a nice green Checkout With Paypal button. A stunning increase in digital content consumption. Just a page.

Marketing 150

Marketing Strategy Sales IT 150

datapine

MAY 2, 2019

In our example above, we are showing Sales by Payment Method for all of 2014. Also, showing the relationship between selected multiple variables is not optimal for waterfall charts (also known as Cascade charts), as bubble plots or scatter plots would be a more effective solution. The takeaways are quick to register yet have depth.

Visualization 173

Visualization Dashboards Sales KPI 173

datapine

JANUARY 31, 2022

Because things are changing and becoming more competitive in every sector of business, the benefits of business intelligence and proper use of data analytics are key to outperforming the competition. It will ultimately help them spot new business opportunities, cut costs, or identify inefficient processes that need reengineering.

Business Intelligence 214

Business Intelligence Analytics Cost-Benefit ROI 214

Domino Data Lab

AUGUST 22, 2019

[Note: In more technical machine learning terms, the cost function of the skip-gram architecture is to maximize the log probability of any possible context word from a corpus given the current target word.] At the time—in 2014—the three were colleagues working. A major benefit of fastText. Pennington, J., GloVe: Global vectors.

Deep Learning 111

Deep Learning Modeling Metrics Testing 111

Occam's Razor

NOVEMBER 18, 2014

Short story #2: Predictive Modeling, Quantifying Cost of Inaction. And sometimes they are indeed optimal: 7 Data Presentation Tips: Think, Simplify, Calibrate, Visualize. Three cool benefits: 1. Better than the table, but perhaps less optimal than the Treemap. Short story #1: Treemaps, Sunbursts, Packed Trees, Oh My!

Visualization 143

Visualization Slice and Dice Predictive Modeling Metrics 143

Occam's Razor

NOVEMBER 2, 2015

The benefits are numerous. Economic Value (EcV) is the value of short and long-term revenue and cost savings. The way it works is that you compute the total cost of your Social Media program: SM employee salaries and benefits, agency fees, content acquisition/production costs, analyst salaries, executive time invested etc.

B2B 167

B2B Metrics Testing Recreation/Entertainment 167

Occam's Razor

FEBRUARY 9, 2015

You can see a specific shift in strategy starting May 2014 for Shutterstock, while we have continued to plod along at the same pace. But, more than that, the cost of providing digital only services (like photos, or literally anything in the cloud) is extremely low. Especially since Shutterstock is 4x the traffic size as Getty.

Metrics 155

Metrics Reporting IT Advertising 155