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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., Crucially, it takes into account the uncertainty inherent in our experiments. Here, $X$ is a vector of tuning parameters that control the system's operating characteristics (e.g.

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Data Science, Past & Future

Domino Data Lab

The year 2018 was what Wall Street Journal called “ a global reckoning on data governance.” ” If you don’t know, there were hundreds of millions of people affected worldwide during 2018 with security breaches and then data privacy leakage. They’re being told they have to embrace uncertainty.

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Humans-in-the-loop forecasting: integrating data science and business planning

The Unofficial Google Data Science Blog

by THOMAS OLAVSON Thomas leads a team at Google called "Operations Data Science" that helps Google scale its infrastructure capacity optimally. This classification is based on the purpose, horizon, update frequency and uncertainty of the forecast. Our team does a lot of forecasting.