The Unofficial Google Data Science Blog

APRIL 23, 2024

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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O'Reilly on Data

APRIL 5, 2023

Jeff Desjardins, founder and editor-in-chief at Visual Capitalist , has published a fascinating infographic depicting 188 cognitive biases–and those are just the ones we know about. In 2016, Microsoft’s Tay chatbot was shut down after making racist and sexist comments. But there are dozens and dozens of known biases (e.g.,

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FineReport

APRIL 20, 2020

The latest version released is Crystal Reports 2016. Crystal Report uses an accurate measurement. It requires setting the size of the form control by measuring the size of the invoice in advance, which is inefficient. Comparison between Crystal Reports and FineReport-Data visualization and Dashboard . Page Printing .

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Smart Data Collective

MAY 31, 2023

One example of this trend is by using analytics to measure the engagement of Instagram stories to get customers to interact more frequently. Instagram introduced stories in 2016 , and till then, it has become a fantastic marketing tool. To summarize, trim the text, let your visuals shine, and watch those comments roll in.

Marketing 77

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The Unofficial Google Data Science Blog

MARCH 13, 2017

A note on visualization The most convenient way to inspect our feature importances (attributions) is to visualize them. To window the image, we take an element-wise product of the window with the pixel values and visualize the resulting image. We do this by using the attributions as a (soft) window over the image itself.

IT 68

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Insight

JUNE 10, 2019

In 2016, Uber published its Uber Elevate White Paper , setting its aspirations on providing on-demand air taxis from San Francisco to San Jose for about $130. Alexander | June 1, 2016 Training a c onvolution neural network (CNN) to spot helipads The solution I developed rests on retraining a CNN to recognize helipads in aerial images.

Breakeven 69

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Domino Data Lab

OCTOBER 23, 2019

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. 05) in predicting changes in attendance.

Statistics 59

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Domino Data Lab

AUGUST 8, 2019

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.

Data Science 71

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Smarten

SEPTEMBER 6, 2019

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.

Analytics 51

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datapine

AUGUST 29, 2022

It was lately revised and updated in January 2016. If you found our list of the best data analytics and big data books useful, but your hunger for knowledge hasn’t been satisfied yet, take a look at our best business intelligence books or our data visualization books post to keep growing in your understanding of data science.

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Domino Data Lab

AUGUST 1, 2021

2016) for an example of this technique (LIME). Skater provides a wide range of algorithms that can be used for visual interpretation (e.g. but it generally relies on measuring the entropy in the change of predictions given a perturbation of a feature. Toy example to present intuition for LIME from Ribeiro (2016).

Modeling 139

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Depict Data Studio

SEPTEMBER 15, 2020

In 2016, I met evaluator extraordinaire Dana Wanzer at a national conference. On her podcast, we talked about my unexpected shift from being an evaluator to a data visualization designer, along with my tips getting started working for yourself or teaching online. My specialty, though, is data visualization.

Visualization 105

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Domino Data Lab

SEPTEMBER 25, 2019

We see it when working with log data, financial data, transactional data, and when measuring anything in a real engineering system. predict(usBest, n.ahead=5, se.fit=TRUE) $pred Time Series: Start = 2012 End = 2016 Frequency = 1 [1] 49292.41 Time series data is commonly encountered. > # make a prediction for 5 years out?

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datapine

DECEMBER 28, 2021

These controlling measures are essential and should be part of any experiment or survey – unfortunately, that isn’t always the case. This means that there is no definable justification for the placement of the visible measurement lines. In 2012, the global mean temperature was measured at 58.2 But this didn’t come easy.

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CIO Business Intelligence

APRIL 12, 2022

15 the data visualization specialist acquired Narrative Science, which describes itself as a leader in data storytelling technologies. 7 Alteryx snapped up a small Australian SaaS company, Hyper Anna, to add more AI-driven visualizations and reporting features to its analytics automation platform. Tableau buys Narrative Science.

Technology 143

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Domino Data Lab

MARCH 27, 2019

Special thanks to Addison-Wesley Professional for permission to excerpt the following “Manipulating data with dplyr” chapter from the book, Programming Skills for Data Science: Start Writing Code to Wrangle, Analyze, and Visualize Data with R. However, a grouped operation would allow you to compute the same summary measure (e.g.,

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