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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. And an LSOS is awash in data, right?

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

The Unofficial Google Data Science Blog

Variance reduction through conditioning Suppose, as an LSOS experimenter, you find that your key metric varies a lot by country and time of day. And since the metric average is different in each hour of day, this is a source of variation in measuring the experimental effect. Obviously, this doesn’t have to be true.