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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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Changing assignment weights with time-based confounders

The Unofficial Google Data Science Blog

Instead, we focus on the case where an experimenter has decided to run a full traffic ramp-up experiment and wants to use the data from all of the epochs in the analysis. When there are changing assignment weights and time-based confounders, this complication must be considered either in the analysis or the experimental design.

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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

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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Themes and Conferences per Pacoid, Episode 6

Domino Data Lab

Spoiler alert: a research field called curiosity-driven learning is emerging at the nexis of experimental cognitive psychology and industry use cases for machine learning, particularly in gaming AI. The ability to measure results (risk-reducing evidence). Ensure a culture that supports a steady process of learning and experimentation.

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Magnificent Mobile Website And App Analytics: Reports, Metrics, How-to!

Occam's Razor

But why blame others, in this post let's focus on one important reason whose responsibility can be squarely put on your shoulders and mine: Measurement. Create a distinct mobile website and mobile app measurement strategies. Dive into Mobile Reporting and Analysis. Dive into Mobile Reporting and Analysis.

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What Are ChatGPT and Its Friends?

O'Reilly on Data

There are more that I haven’t listed, and there will be even more by the time you read this report. That statement would certainly horrify the researchers who are working on them, but at the level we can discuss in a nontechnical report, they are very similar. Why are we starting by naming all the names?

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