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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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Unlock The Power of Your Data With These 19 Big Data & Data Analytics Books

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An excerpt from a rave review : “I would definitely recommend this book to everyone interested in learning about data from scratch and would say it is the finest resource available among all other Big Data Analytics books.”. If we had to pick one book for an absolute newbie to the field of Data Science to read, it would be this one.

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Explaining black-box models using attribute importance, PDPs, and LIME

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2016) for an example of this technique (LIME). After forming the X and y variables, we split the data into training and test sets. Looking at the target vector in the training subset, we notice that our training data is highly imbalanced. Toy example to present intuition for LIME from Ribeiro (2016). See Wei et al.

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Misleading Statistics Examples – Discover The Potential For Misuse of Statistics & Data In The Digital Age

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To make sure the reliability is high, there are various techniques to perform – the first of them being the control tests, which should have similar results when reproducing an experiment in similar conditions. These controlling measures are essential and should be part of any experiment or survey – unfortunately, that isn’t always the case.