O'Reilly on Data

MARCH 31, 2020

All you need to know for now is that machine learning uses statistical techniques to give computer systems the ability to “learn” by being trained on existing data. After training, the system can make predictions (or deliver other results) based on data it hasn’t seen before. Machine learning adds uncertainty.

Management 332

Management Machine Learning Experimentation Metrics 332

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

JULY 18, 2023

Once we’ve answered that, we will then define and use metrics to understand the quality of human-labeled data, along with a measurement framework that we call Cross-replication Reliability or xRR. Last, we’ll provide a case study of how xRR can be used to measure improvements in a data-labeling platform.

Measurement 52

Measurement Metrics Uncertainty Slice and Dice 52

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

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. That’s another pattern.

Management 110

Management Machine Learning Experimentation Metrics 110