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

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2016) for an example of this technique (LIME). Because of its architecture, intrinsically explainable ANNs can be optimised not just on its prediction performance, but also on its explainability metric. Toy example to present intuition for LIME from Ribeiro (2016). Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining, pp.

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

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Whether you are a complete novice or a seasoned BI professional, you will find here some books on data analytics that will help you cultivate your understanding of this essential field. Before we delve deeper into the best books for data analytics, here are three big data insights to put their relevance and importance into perspective.

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