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Drug Discovery Needs AI To Discover More Treatments

Smart Data Collective

Phase 0 is the first to involve human testing. Phase I involves dialing-in the proper dosage and further testing in a larger patient pool. In a report on the failure rates of drug discovery efforts between 2013 and 2015, Richard K. Researching and developing new drugs involves multiple steps called “Phases.”

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Towards optimal experimentation in online systems

The Unofficial Google Data Science Blog

To find optimal values of two parameters experimentally, the obvious strategy would be to experiment with and update them in separate, sequential stages. Our experimentation platform supports this kind of grouped-experiments analysis, which allows us to see rough summaries of our designed experiments without much work.

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Experiment design and modeling for long-term studies in ads

The Unofficial Google Data Science Blog

A/B testing is used widely in information technology companies to guide product development and improvements. For questions as disparate as website design and UI, prediction algorithms, or user flows within apps, live traffic tests help developers understand what works well for users and the business, and what doesn’t.

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Changing assignment weights with time-based confounders

The Unofficial Google Data Science Blog

Another reason to use ramp-up is to test if a website's infrastructure can handle deploying a new arm to all of its users. The website wants to make sure they have the infrastructure to handle the feature while testing if engagement increases enough to justify the infrastructure. We offer two examples where this may be the case.

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The 2015 Digital Marketing Rule Book. Change or Perish.

Occam's Razor

Allocate some of your aforementioned 15% budget to experimentation and testing. The 2015 Digital Marketing Rule Book. If you are an executive, encourage your company to check its old world thinking at the door. Consider rewarding people with new ideas. Don't brush off Twitter or Google+ because you are B2B or A2K.

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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. A naïve way to solve this problem would be to compare the proportion of buyers between the exposed and unexposed groups, using a simple test for equality of means.

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Introducing the vector engine for Amazon OpenSearch Serverless, now in preview

AWS Big Data

From preview to GA and beyond Today, we are excited to announce the preview of the vector engine, making it available for you to begin testing it out immediately. We recognize that many of you are in the experimentation phase and would like a more economical option for dev-test.