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What is data analytics? Analyzing and managing data for decisions

CIO Business Intelligence

Data analytics draws from a range of disciplines — including computer programming, mathematics, and statistics — to perform analysis on data in an effort to describe, predict, and improve performance. What are the four types of data analytics? Data analytics includes the tools and techniques used to perform data analysis.

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Experiment design and modeling for long-term studies in ads

The Unofficial Google Data Science Blog

by HENNING HOHNHOLD, DEIRDRE O'BRIEN, and DIANE TANG In this post we discuss the challenges in measuring and modeling the long-term effect of ads on user behavior. Nevertheless, A/B testing has challenges and blind spots, such as: the difficulty of identifying suitable metrics that give "works well" a measurable meaning.

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MLOps and the evolution of data science

IBM Big Data Hub

Machine learning (ML), a subset of artificial intelligence (AI), is an important piece of data-driven innovation. Machine learning engineers take massive datasets and use statistical methods to create algorithms that are trained to find patterns and uncover key insights in data mining projects.

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Mobile Marketing 2015: Rethink Customer Acquisition, Intent Targeting

Occam's Razor

Two companies, Skullcandy and TripIt, delivering on four amazing outcomes that inspire us to set the bar significantly higher for our mobile efforts in 2015 (or sooner!). I'm sure you are impressed at the data mining and intent targeting efforts of TripIt. That is what all marketing in 2015 will look like.

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A Guide To Starting A Career In Business Intelligence & The BI Skills You Need

datapine

According to the US Bureau of Labor Statistics, demand for qualified business intelligence analysts and managers is expected to soar to 14% by 2026, with the overall need for data professionals to climb to 28% by the same year. The Bureau of Labor Statistics also states that in 2015, the annual median salary for BI analysts was $81,320.

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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., Taking measurements at parameter settings further from control parameter settings leads to a lower variance estimate of the slope of the line relating the metric to the parameter.

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Changing assignment weights with time-based confounders

The Unofficial Google Data Science Blog

For this reason we don’t report uncertainty measures or statistical significance in the results of the simulation. Ramp-up solution: measure epoch and condition on its effect If one wants to do full traffic ramp-up and use data from all epochs, they must use an adjusted estimator to get an unbiased estimate of the average reward in each arm.