Domino Data Lab

MAY 15, 2019

Unfortunately, a common challenge that many industry people face includes battling “ the model myth ,” or the perception that because their work includes code and data, their work “should” be treated like software engineering. I was fortunate to see an early iteration of Pete Skomoroch ’s ML product management presentation in November 2018.

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Machine Learning Management Experimentation Uncertainty 111

Corinium

JUNE 6, 2019

Fractal’s recommendation is to take an incremental, test and learn approach to analytics to fully demonstrate the program value before making larger capital investments. It is also important to have a strong test and learn culture to encourage rapid experimentation. Fractal’s 2018 Net Promoter Score is greater than 70.

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Domino Data Lab

JUNE 13, 2019

Recently, Chhavi Yadav (NYU) and Leon Bottou (Facebook AI Research and NYU) indicated in their paper, “ Cold Case: The Lost MNIST Digits ”, how they reconstructed the MNIST (Modified National Institute of Standards and Technology) dataset and added 50,000 samples to the test set for a total of 60,000 samples. Did they overfit the test set?

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Testing Data Science Experimentation Metadata 83

The Unofficial Google Data Science Blog

APRIL 23, 2024

Experiments, Parameters and Models At Youtube, the relationships between system parameters and metrics often seem simple — straight-line models sometimes fit our data well. That is true generally, not just in these experiments — spreading measurements out is generally better, if the straight-line model is a priori correct.

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Experimentation Optimization Uncertainty Metrics 52

Cloudera

AUGUST 2, 2018

Data teams in these insurance firms are leading the charge in rebuilding entire business models around data and analytics. Today, we are announcing Cloudera Data Warehouse – our battle-tested modern data warehousing solution – formerly known as Cloudera Analytic DB. Learn more about Cloudera Altus Data Warehousing.

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Data Warehouse Insurance Experimentation Software 51

CIO Business Intelligence

NOVEMBER 4, 2022

When Bob McCowan was promoted to CIO at Regeneron Pharmaceuticals in 2018, he had previously run the data center infrastructure for the $81.5 Empowering scientists through the cloud McCowan set about migrating Regeneron to Amazon Web Services in late 2018. If you are not on the cloud, you are going to be left behind.”

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Data Lake IT Experimentation Data-driven 109

Occam's Razor

JUNE 4, 2018

It is 2018—why are there still light gray below-the-fold add to cart buttons? Not easy, but your business model has to change to survive.). Such is the case with A/B testing. Although it may seem impossible to imagine with ecommerce already totaling up to 5% of overall commerce, there’s astronomical growth still to come.

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