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How Insurance Companies Use Data To Measure Risk And Choose Rates

Smart Data Collective

Here is the type of data insurance companies use to measure a client’s potential risk and determine rates. Traditional data, like demographics, continues to be a factor in risk assessment. Teens and young adults are less experienced drivers and, therefore, at risk for more car accidents. Demographics. This includes: Age.

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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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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). “ That’s a risk in case, say, legislators – who don’t understand the nuances of machine learning – attempt to define a single meaning of the word interpret. Challenges for Transparency ”. Riccardo Guidotti, et al.

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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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Changing assignment weights with time-based confounders

The Unofficial Google Data Science Blog

One reason to do ramp-up is to mitigate the risk of never before seen arms. 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.

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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. million.

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Themes and Conferences per Pacoid, Episode 12

Domino Data Lab

Their approach is to bombard “organoid” mini brains living in vats with potential cancer meds, to measure the meds’ relative effects. The probabilistic nature changes the risks and process required. They tend to use less machine learning, but more advanced statistical practices, since the outcomes (government policies, etc.)