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KDD 2020 Opens Call for Papers

Data Science 101

This weeks guest post comes from KDD (Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining). Every year they host an excellent and influential conference focusing on many areas of data science. SIGKDD is ACM’s Special Interest Group on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining.?The 1989 to be exact. The details are below.

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Changing assignment weights with time-based confounders

The Unofficial Google Data Science Blog

For example, imagine a fantasy football site is considering displaying advanced player statistics. A ramp-up strategy may mitigate the risk of upsetting the site’s loyal users who perhaps have strong preferences for the current statistics that are shown. One reason to do ramp-up is to mitigate the risk of never before seen arms.