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Fundamentals of Data Mining

Data Science 101

This data alone does not make any sense unless it’s identified to be related in some pattern. Data mining is the process of discovering these patterns among the data and is therefore also known as Knowledge Discovery from Data (KDD). Machine learning provides the technical basis for data mining.

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Experiment design and modeling for long-term studies in ads

The Unofficial Google Data Science Blog

Recently, we presented some basic insights from our effort to measure and predict long-term effects at KDD 2015 [1]. In this blog post, we summarize that paper and refer you to it for details. Henne, Dan Sommerfield, Overall Evaluation Criterion , Proceedings 13th Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining, 2007.

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Using Empirical Bayes to approximate posteriors for large "black box" estimators

The Unofficial Google Data Science Blog

For more on ad CTR estimation, refer to [2]. References [1] Omkar Muralidharan, Amir Najmi "Second Order Calibration: A Simple Way To Get Approximate Posteriors" , Technical Report, Google, 2015. [2] A machine learning system produces an estimated CTR $t_i$ for each query-ad pair. Our method has four steps: Bin by $t$.

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