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Drug Discovery Needs AI To Discover More Treatments

Smart Data Collective

In a report on the failure rates of drug discovery efforts between 2013 and 2015, Richard K. The 15% failure rate of new drugs due to incompatible company strategies doesn’t have to continue. This is also where new formulations receive apples-to-apples comparisons with existing “standard of care” drugs and methods.

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Towards optimal experimentation in online systems

The Unofficial Google Data Science Blog

It is also a sound strategy when experimenting with several parameters at the same time. To find optimal values of two parameters experimentally, the obvious strategy would be to experiment with and update them in separate, sequential stages. (And sometimes even if it is not[1].)

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HPE Looks to Edge-to-Cloud Strategy for Growth in 2018/2019

Hurwitz & Associates

This central strategy, an evolution of the company’s plan for the Intelligent Edge and edge gateway systems, expands on the company’s broad portfolio of software, services, systems, storage and networking products. New products for its edge-to-cloud strategy and solutions. HPE Launches Products for Edge-to-Cloud Solutions.

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The ethics of data flow

O'Reilly on Data

Facebook asked Cambridge Analytica to delete the data back in 2015, but apparently did nothing to determine whether the data was actually deleted, or shared further. They are creating strategies to control information flows that appear to be out of their control. Once data has started flowing, it is very difficult to stop it.

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Changing assignment weights with time-based confounders

The Unofficial Google Data Science Blog

by ALEXANDER WAKIM Ramp-up and multi-armed bandits (MAB) are common strategies in online controlled experiments (OCE). These strategies involve changing assignment weights during an experiment. The first is a strategy called ramp-up and is advised by many experts in the field [1].

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The 2015 Digital Marketing Rule Book. Change or Perish.

Occam's Razor

A huge part of the last few years for me have been about bringing more data, better strategies, more powerful tools, ever more impactful keynotes to people around the world. Get the senior-most people in the largest companies in the world to unlock their imaginations when it comes to their digital existence via impactful digital strategies.

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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. See Hainmueller (2012), and the work of Zhao & Percival (2015) for more details on how this optimization problem is solved, and for further discussion. 2014): 243-263.