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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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Edward Jones’ CIO Frank LaQuinta plays to win

CIO Business Intelligence

He came to Edward Jones in 2016 after a 30-year career in technology on Wall Street and was named chief information officer in 2018. Leveraging the right technical solutions for unique business problems will require experimentation and will result in advances in the technology supported across teams. technology and ops budget.

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Is Google Cloud Platform Ready to Run Your Data Analytics Pipeline?

Sanjeev Mohan

My journey in helping our customers with their technical queries started when I joined Gartner in late 2016. GCP has gained acceptance for development and experimentation and more enterprise customers are putting it into production. You can view the entire research report here (requires Gartner subscription).

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Topics to watch at the Strata Data Conference in New York 2019

O'Reilly on Data

So, we used a form of the Term Frequency-Inverse Document Frequency (TF/IDF) technique to identify and rank the top terms in this year’s Strata NY proposal topics—as well as those for 2018, 2017, and 2016. 2) is unchanged from Strata NY 2018, it’s up three places from Strata NY 2017—and eight places relative to 2016.

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Smarter Survey Results and Impact: Abandon the Asker-Puker Model!

Occam's Razor

If you are open to being challenged… then here are the short-stories inside this post… The World Needs Reporting Squirrels. The World Needs Reporting Squirrels. If you are curious, here is a April 2011 post: The Difference Between Web Reporting And Web Analysis. Hypothesis development and design of experimentation.

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The History of Malware: A Primer on the Evolution of Cyber Threats

IBM Big Data Hub

1971: Creeper worm Just five years after John von Neumann’s theoretical work was published, a programmer by the name of Bob Thomas created an experimental program called Creeper, designed to move between different computers on the ARPANET , a precursor to the modern Internet.

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When models are everywhere

O'Reilly on Data

Television only lacked the immediate feedback that comes with clicks, tracking cookies, tracking pixels, online experimentation, machine learning, and “agile” product cycles. Model Cards for Model Reporting by Mitchell et al. That loop isn’t new, of course; it was well-known to TV network executives. If that’s not engagement, what is?

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