Rocket-Powered Data Science

JULY 19, 2023

I recently saw an informal online survey that asked users which types of data (tabular, text, images, or “other”) are being used in their organization’s analytics applications. This was not a scientific or statistically robust survey, so the results are not necessarily reliable, but they are interesting and provocative.

Data-driven 188

Data-driven Enterprise Analytics Machine Learning 188

Occam's Razor

APRIL 8, 2013

To win in business you need to follow this process: Metrics > Hypothesis > Experiment > Act. We are far too enamored with data collection and reporting the standard metrics we love because others love them because someone else said they were nice so many years ago. That metric is tied to a KPI.

Metrics 156

Metrics KPI Analytics Key Performance Indicator 156

The Unofficial Google Data Science Blog

JANUARY 14, 2016

Unlike experimentation in some other areas, LSOS experiments present a surprising challenge to statisticians — even though we operate in the realm of “big data”, the statistical uncertainty in our experiments can be substantial. We must therefore maintain statistical rigor in quantifying experimental uncertainty.

Experimentation 41

Experimentation Statistics Metrics Measurement 41

Domino Data Lab

JULY 22, 2019

He was saying this doesn’t belong just in statistics. He also really informed a lot of the early thinking about data visualization. It involved a lot of interesting work on something new that was data management. To some extent, academia still struggles a lot with how to stick data science into some sort of discipline.

Data Science 109

Data Science Machine Learning Data Governance Modeling 109

Peter James Thomas

AUGUST 12, 2018

Again see Using BI to drive improvements in data quality for further details. Pertinence and fidelity of metrics developed from Data. Here we get past issues with data itself (or how it is handled and moved around) and instead consider how it is used. There are often compromises to be made in defining metrics.

Metrics 49

Metrics Statistics Data Quality Measurement 49

Domino Data Lab

JUNE 23, 2019

Companies with successful ML projects are often companies that already have an experimental culture in place as well as analytics that enable them to learn from data. Ensure that product managers work on projects that matter to the business and/or are aligned to strategic company metrics. Now many people are using Spark.

Management 110

Management Machine Learning Experimentation Metrics 110

The Unofficial Google Data Science Blog

FEBRUARY 29, 2016

In this post we explore why some standard statistical techniques to reduce variance are often ineffective in this “data-rich, information-poor” realm. Despite a very large number of experimental units, the experiments conducted by LSOS cannot presume statistical significance of all effects they deem practically significant.

Experimentation 40

Experimentation Metrics Statistics Measurement 40