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The Top 20 Data Visualization Books That Should Be On Your Bookshelf

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But often that’s how we present statistics: we just show the notes, we don’t play the music.” – Hans Rosling, Swedish statistician. Data visualization, or ‘data viz’ as it’s commonly known, is the graphic presentation of data. That’s a colossal number of books on visualization. Data visualization: What You Need To Know.

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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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Techniques for Collecting, Prepping, and Plotting Data: Predicting Social Media-Influence in the NBA

Domino Data Lab

As a result, there has been a recent explosion in individual statistics that try to measure a player’s impact. Knowing that the ultimate goal is to compare the social-media influence and power of NBA players, a great place to start is with the roster of the NBA players in the 2016–2017 season. The R-squared value of.282

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Themes and Conferences per Pacoid, Episode 12

Domino Data Lab

Having participated in several Foo Camps—and even co-chaired the Ed Foo series in 2016-17— most definitely, a Foo will turn your head around. Their approach is to bombard “organoid” mini brains living in vats with potential cancer meds, to measure the meds’ relative effects. Rinse, lather, repeat—probably each week.

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Attributing a deep network’s prediction to its input features

The Unofficial Google Data Science Blog

Typically, causal inference in data science is framed in probabilistic terms, where there is statistical uncertainty in the outcomes as well as model uncertainty about the true causal mechanism connecting inputs and outputs. A note on visualization The most convenient way to inspect our feature importances (attributions) is to visualize them.

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What is SSDP and Can it Truly Make Analytics Self-Serve?

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SSDP allows average business users to compile and prepare data and use that data in analytics to test hypotheses, visualize and share data, prepare reports and support day-to-day tasks with complete drill-down and drill-through capability, custom alerts and mobile access that supports the needs of every team member.

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

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It was lately revised and updated in January 2016. With a very strong practical focus “Analytics in a Big Data World” starts by providing the readers with the basic nomenclature, the analytics process model, and its relation to other relevant disciplines, such as statistics, machine learning, and artificial intelligence.

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