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Belcorp reimagines R&D with AI

CIO Business Intelligence

As Belcorp considered the difficulties it faced, the R&D division noted it could significantly expedite time-to-market and increase productivity in its product development process if it could shorten the timeframes of the experimental and testing phases in the R&D labs. This allowed us to derive insights more easily.”

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Towards optimal experimentation in online systems

The Unofficial Google Data Science Blog

If $Y$ at that point is (statistically and practically) significantly better than our current operating point, and that point is deemed acceptable, we update the system parameters to this better value. And we can keep repeating this approach, relying on intuition and luck. Why experiment with several parameters concurrently?

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The trinity of errors in applying confidence intervals: An exploration using Statsmodels

O'Reilly on Data

We develop an ordinary least squares (OLS) linear regression model of equity returns using Statsmodels, a Python statistical package, to illustrate these three error types. We use the diagnostic test results of our regression model to support the reasons why CIs should not be used in financial data analyses. and an error term ??

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

Occam's Razor

Hypothesis development and design of experimentation. Econsultancy/Lynchpin provides this description in the report: "There were 960 respondents to our research request, which took the form of a global online survey fielded in May and June 2016. Ok, maybe statistical modeling smells like an analytical skill.

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Deep Learning Illustrated: Building Natural Language Processing Models

Domino Data Lab

Although it’s not perfect, [Note: These are statistical approximations, of course!] Note: A test set of 19,500 such analogies was developed by Tomas Mikolov and his colleagues in their 2013 word2vec paper. This test set is available at download.tensorflow.org/data/questions-words.txt.]. Note that the final test word in Table 11.2—ma’am—is