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Robust Experimentation and Testing | Reasons for Failure!

Occam's Razor

Since you're reading a blog on advanced analytics, I'm going to assume that you have been exposed to the magical and amazing awesomeness of experimentation and testing. And yet, chances are you really don’t know anyone directly who uses experimentation as a part of their regular business practice. Wah wah wah waaah.

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Experiment design and modeling for long-term studies in ads

The Unofficial Google Data Science Blog

accounting for effects "orthogonal" to the randomization used in experimentation. For example in ads, experiments using cookies (users) as experimental units are not suited to capture the impact of a treatment on advertisers or publishers nor their reaction to it.

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12 Marketing Reports Examples You Can Use For Annual, Monthly, Weekly And Daily Reporting Practice

datapine

Often CMOs don’t have time to look into each detail of an advertising campaign but focus their resources into strategic goals of a company and this report shows us exactly what kind of metrics and insights are needed to be successful. 3) Online Advertising Performance. 2) Marketing Performance Report. click to enlarge**.

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Misadventures in experiments for growth

The Unofficial Google Data Science Blog

by MICHAEL FORTE Large-scale live experimentation is a big part of online product development. In fact, this blog has published posts on this very topic. This means a small and growing product has to use experimentation differently and very carefully. This blog post is about experimentation in this regime.

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Digital Marketing & Analytics: Five Deadly Myths De-mythified!

Occam's Razor

Programmatic advertising is all the rage. Google's Adwords is perhaps the simplest example of programmatic advertising. I love the shift to intent-based targeting (I cannot stress how massively important to the future of advertising and marketing). Our advertising will rain down massive revenues! !" Does Yahoo!

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Five Key Elements For A Big Analytics Driven Business Impact

Occam's Razor

" I think the answer expected was my view related to the size of the company or their industries or those that might have Google Analytics or those with big advertising spends etc. My answer was: " Look for these two elements, if they are present then it is worth helping the company with free consulting and analysis.

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Themes and Conferences per Pacoid, Episode 9

Domino Data Lab

So much work in machine learning – either on the academic side which is focused on publishing papers or the industry side which is focused on ROI – tends to emphasize: How much predictive power (precision, recall) does the model have? If you invest enough time into modeling, you can often find relatively simple models for a given problem.