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Towards optimal experimentation in online systems

The Unofficial Google Data Science Blog

Crucially, it takes into account the uncertainty inherent in our experiments. To find optimal values of two parameters experimentally, the obvious strategy would be to experiment with and update them in separate, sequential stages. In this section we’ll discuss how we approach these two kinds of uncertainty with QCQP.

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Belcorp reimagines R&D with AI

CIO Business Intelligence

These circumstances have induced uncertainty across our entire business value chain,” says Venkat Gopalan, chief digital, data and technology officer, Belcorp. “As To address the challenges, the company has leveraged a combination of computer vision, neural networks, NLP, and fuzzy logic.

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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. What’s going on?

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

O'Reilly on Data

Because of this trifecta of errors, we need dynamic models that quantify the uncertainty inherent in our financial estimates and predictions. Practitioners in all social sciences, especially financial economics, use confidence intervals to quantify the uncertainty in their estimates and predictions.