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How Do Super Rookies Start Learning Data Analysis?

FineReport

For super rookies, the first task is to understand what data analysis is. Data analysis is a type of knowledge discovery that gains insights from data and drives business decisions. One is how to gain insights from the data. Data is cold and can’t speak. From Google. There are two points here.

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Variance and significance in large-scale online services

The Unofficial Google Data Science Blog

by AMIR NAJMI Running live experiments on large-scale online services (LSOS) is an important aspect of data science. But the fact that a service could have millions of users and billions of interactions gives rise to both big data and methods which are effective with big data.

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Changing assignment weights with time-based confounders

The Unofficial Google Data Science Blog

For the first example, consider a small website that is a platform for content on personal finance. How willing your users are to engage with personal finance content depends on whether or not it’s the weekend. A/B testing isn’t simple just because data is big — the law of large numbers doesn’t take care of everything!

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LSOS experiments: how I learned to stop worrying and love the variability

The Unofficial Google Data Science Blog

For instance, the product offering of a personal finance website might be very different in different countries and hence conversion rates (acceptances per offer) might differ considerably by country. There are pretty clear structural reasons for why this could be the case.