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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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Magnificent Mobile Website And App Analytics: Reports, Metrics, How-to!

Occam's Razor

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. They will need two different implementations, it is quite likely that you will end up with two sets of metrics (more people focused for mobile apps, more visit focused for sites).

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To Balance or Not to Balance?

The Unofficial Google Data Science Blog

In an ideal world, experimentation through randomization of the treatment assignment allows the identification and consistent estimation of causal effects. This algorithm is implemented in the SuperLearner R package (Polley & van der Laan, 2014). 2014): 243-263. This is often referred to as the positivity assumption.

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Themes and Conferences per Pacoid, Episode 6

Domino Data Lab

Spoiler alert: a research field called curiosity-driven learning is emerging at the nexis of experimental cognitive psychology and industry use cases for machine learning, particularly in gaming AI. Ensure a culture that supports a steady process of learning and experimentation. Resilience: “It’s hard to quell curiosity.”.

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Deep Learning Illustrated: Building Natural Language Processing Models

Domino Data Lab

At the time—in 2014—the three were colleagues working. We need to take a brief break from natural language-specific content here to introduce a metric that will come in handy in the next section of the chapter, when we will evaluate the performance of deep learning NLP models. Pennington, J., GloVe: Global vectors. 0.85 = 0.15.

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6 Case Studies on The Benefits of Business Intelligence And Analytics

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They’re about having the mindset of an experimenter and being willing to let data guide a company’s decision-making process. Lieferando is a European online food-ordering service that was acquired by Just Eat Take Away in 2014. What Are The Benefits of Business Intelligence? 5) Find improvement opportunities through predictions.

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How To Suck At Social Media: An Indispensable Guide For Businesses

Occam's Razor

Success Metrics. In my Oct 2011 post, Best Social Media Metrics , I'd created four metrics to quantify this value. I believe the best way to measure success is to measure the above four metrics (actual interaction/action/outcome). It can be a brand metric, say Likelihood to Recommend. It is not that hard.

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