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An Overview of Revenue Analytics for Event Industry

BizAcuity

This is resulting in the largest event management companies across this sector spending more than $43 billion on revenue analytics – which is a multi-dimensional and evolving field harnessing statistics, Artificial Intelligence and other tools to identify meaningful patterns in large data sets.

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Measuring Validity and Reliability of Human Ratings

The Unofficial Google Data Science Blog

E ven after we account for disagreement, human ratings may not measure exactly what we want to measure. Researchers and practitioners have been using human-labeled data for many years, trying to understand all sorts of abstract concepts that we could not measure otherwise. That’s the focus of this blog post.

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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., This blog post discusses such a comprehensive approach that is used at Youtube. Figure 2: Spreading measurements out makes estimates of model (slope of line) more accurate.

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Our quest for robust time series forecasting at scale

The Unofficial Google Data Science Blog

First, the system may not be understood, and even if it was understood it may be extremely difficult to measure the relationships that are assumed to govern its behavior. Facebook in a recent blog post unveiled Prophet , which is also a regression-based forecasting tool. At lastly, "forecasting" for us did not mean anomaly detection.

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Changing assignment weights with time-based confounders

The Unofficial Google Data Science Blog

For example, imagine a fantasy football site is considering displaying advanced player statistics. A ramp-up strategy may mitigate the risk of upsetting the site’s loyal users who perhaps have strong preferences for the current statistics that are shown. One reason to do ramp-up is to mitigate the risk of never before seen arms.

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Themes and Conferences per Pacoid, Episode 9

Domino Data Lab

Finale Doshi-Velez, Been Kim (2017-02-28) ; see also the Domino blog article about TCAV. Adrian Weller (2017-07-29). “ Visualizations are vital in data science work, with the caveat that the information that they convey may be 4-5 layers of abstraction away from the actual business process being measured. 2018-06-21).

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Fact-based Decision-making

Peter James Thomas

This piece was prompted by both Olaf’s question and a recent article by my friend Neil Raden on his Silicon Angle blog, Performance management: Can you really manage what you measure? It is hard to account for such tweaking in measurement systems. Some relate to inherent issues with what is being measured.

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