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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. We offer two examples where this may be the case.

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Towards optimal experimentation in online systems

The Unofficial Google Data Science Blog

If $Y$ at that point is (statistically and practically) significantly better than our current operating point, and that point is deemed acceptable, we update the system parameters to this better value. Modeling live experiment data Data scientists at YouTube are rarely involved in the analysis of typical live traffic experiments.

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Top 10 Analytics And Business Intelligence Trends For 2020

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The demand for real-time online data analysis tools is increasing and the arrival of the IoT (Internet of Things) is also bringing an uncountable amount of data, which will promote the statistical analysis and management at the top of the priorities list. It’s an extension of data mining which refers only to past data.