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Towards optimal experimentation in online systems

The Unofficial Google Data Science Blog

Experiments, Parameters and Models At Youtube, the relationships between system parameters and metrics often seem simple — straight-line models sometimes fit our data well. To find optimal values of two parameters experimentally, the obvious strategy would be to experiment with and update them in separate, sequential stages.

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On the Hunt for Patterns: from Hippocrates to Supercomputers

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Ever since Hippocrates founded his school of medicine in ancient Greece some 2,500 years ago, writes Hannah Fry in her book Hello World: Being Human in the Age of Algorithms , what has been fundamental to healthcare (as she calls it “the fight to keep us healthy”) was observation, experimentation and the analysis of data.

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Themes and Conferences per Pacoid, Episode 9

Domino Data Lab

For example, common practices for collecting data to build training datasets tend to throw away valuable information along the way. The lens of reductionism and an overemphasis on engineering becomes an Achilles heel for data science work. Finale Doshi-Velez, Been Kim (2017-02-28) ; see also the Domino blog article about TCAV.

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Themes and Conferences per Pacoid, Episode 6

Domino Data Lab

In Paco Nathan ‘s latest column, he explores the role of curiosity in data science work as well as Rev 2 , an upcoming summit for data science leaders. Welcome back to our monthly series about data science. and dig into details about where science meets rhetoric in data science. Introduction. This is not that.

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Topics to watch at the Strata Data Conference in New York 2019

O'Reilly on Data

Machine learning, artificial intelligence, data engineering, and architecture are driving the data space. The Strata Data Conferences helped chronicle the birth of big data, as well as the emergence of data science, streaming, and machine learning (ML) as disruptive phenomena. The term “AI,” meanwhile, is No.

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