Occam's Razor

JUNE 6, 2007

I am thrilled to say that my book Web Analytics: An Hour A Day has been published and is now widely available. Experimentation & Testing (A/B, Multivariate, you name it). What ideas to test first on your site? Thrilled is perhaps understating it, I am giddy like a schoolgirl. There I said it. Qualitative and quantitative.

Analytics 60

Analytics Metrics Marketing Dashboards 60

CIO Business Intelligence

JUNE 9, 2022

In these instances, data feeds come largely from various advertising channels, and the reports they generate are designed to help marketers spend wisely. Others aim simply to manage the collection and integration of data, leaving the analysis and presentation work to other tools that specialize in data science and statistics.

Management 144

Management Advertising Data Lake Sales 144

Domino Data Lab

MAY 8, 2019

The lens of reductionism and an overemphasis on engineering becomes an Achilles heel for data science work. Instead, consider a “full stack” tracing from the point of data collection all the way out through inference. Here’s where I get baffled by people who use words such as agile or lean to describe process for data science.

Machine Learning 105

Machine Learning Data Science Modeling Visualization 105

The Unofficial Google Data Science Blog

JULY 18, 2023

Editor's note : The relationship between reliability and validity are somewhat analogous to that between the notions of statistical uncertainty and representational uncertainty introduced in an earlier post. Measurement challenges Assessing reliability is essentially a process of data collection and analysis.

Measurement 52

Measurement Metrics Uncertainty Slice and Dice 52

datapine

AUGUST 29, 2022

Due to this book being published recently, there are not any written reviews available. 4) Big Data: Principles and Best Practices Of Scalable Real-Time Data Systems by Nathan Marz and James Warren. and this book will give you an insight into their data collecting procedures and the reasons behind them.

Big Data 263

Big Data Data Analytics Analytics Data mining 263

O'Reilly on Data

OCTOBER 18, 2022

While there are many interesting and useful benchmark datasets for testing bias in natural language processing, none provided these types of exhaustive demographic labels. If your organization wants to measure bias quantitatively, you’ll probably need to test data with demographic labels. More are published all the time.

Risk Management 291

Risk Management Risk Testing Measurement 291

Occam's Razor

FEBRUARY 22, 2010

These toolbars also collect limited information about the browsing behavior of the customers who use them, including the pages visited, the search terms used, perhaps even time spent on each page, and so forth. Typically, data collected is anonymous and not personally identifiable information (PII). 6: Self-reported Data.

Metrics 123

Metrics Advertising Reporting Software 123

Domino Data Lab

MARCH 3, 2019

This month, the theme is not specifically about conference summaries; rather, it’s about a set of follow-up surveys from Strata Data attendees. We had big surprises at several turns and have subsequently published a series of reports. Evolving Data Infrastructure: Tools and Best Practices for Advanced Analytics and AI (Jan 2019).

Data Science 49

Data Science Deep Learning Machine Learning Modeling 49

The Unofficial Google Data Science Blog

OCTOBER 12, 2017

1]" Statistics, as a discipline, was largely developed in a small data world. Data was expensive to gather, and therefore decisions to collect data were generally well-considered. As computing and storage have made data collection cheaper and easier, we now gather data without this underlying motivation.

Experimentation 61

Experimentation Testing Statistics Metrics 61

Smart Data Collective

JULY 2, 2019

At Smart Data Collective, we strive to have a balanced conversation about the impact of big data. There are obviously a lot of beneficial changes that big data has spurred. However, big data has also created some important challenges as well, which we feel duty-bound to discuss.

Big Data 78

Big Data ROI Testing Statistics 78

Depict Data Studio

APRIL 16, 2019

Long ago, I had majored in psychology so I could take as many research methods and statistics courses as possible. And learning how we learn–the courses on cognition, memory, perception, and brain biology–are critical in my everyday work as a data visualization designer and speaker. Instead, directly label your data.

Visualization 56

Visualization Reporting Statistics Dashboards 56

Jet Global

MAY 1, 2023

Let’s just give our customers access to the data. You’ve settled for becoming a data collection tool rather than adding value to your product. While data exports may satisfy a portion of your customers, there will be many who simply want reports and insights that are available “out of the box.”

Analytics 52

Analytics Cost-Benefit Visualization Dashboards 52