The Unofficial Google Data Science Blog

OCTOBER 7, 2015

by HENNING HOHNHOLD, DEIRDRE O'BRIEN, and DIANE TANG In this post we discuss the challenges in measuring and modeling the long-term effect of ads on user behavior. Nevertheless, A/B testing has challenges and blind spots, such as: the difficulty of identifying suitable metrics that give "works well" a measurable meaning.

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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.

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Domino Data Lab

DECEMBER 4, 2020

Having calculated AUC/AUMC, we can further derive a number of useful metrics like: Total clearance of the drug from plasma. Domino Lab supports both interactive and batch experimentation with all popular IDEs and notebooks (Jupyter, RStudio, SAS, Zeppelin, etc.). The area under the first moment curve would respectively be.

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The Unofficial Google Data Science Blog

JANUARY 16, 2018

Experimentation on networks A/B testing is a standard method of measuring the effect of changes by randomizing samples into different treatment groups. With A/B testing, we can validate various hypotheses and measure the impact of our product changes, allowing us to make better decisions. This could create confusion.

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CIO Business Intelligence

MAY 1, 2024

Pilots can offer value beyond just experimentation, of course. McKinsey reports that industrial design teams using LLM-powered summaries of user research and AI-generated images for ideation and experimentation sometimes see a reduction upward of 70% in product development cycle times. What are you measuring?

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Insight

MARCH 12, 2020

One way that we can get around this is to use the proportion of tags that fall into a given class as a measure of our degree of confidence in that class association. It is worth keeping in mind that the choice of threshold will impact downstream metrics like precision as well as shifting the size of our dataset. Why is this important?

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datapine

FEBRUARY 4, 2020

Management thinker Peter Drucker once stated, “if you can’t measure it, you can’t improve it” – and he couldn’t be more right. Structure your metrics. As with any report you might need to create, structuring and implementing metrics that will tell an interesting and educational data-story is crucial in our digital age.

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Occam's Razor

SEPTEMBER 15, 2014

But why blame others, in this post let's focus on one important reason whose responsibility can be squarely put on your shoulders and mine: Measurement. Create a distinct mobile website and mobile app measurement strategies. Media-Mix Modeling/Experimentation. Remember my stress earlier on measuring micro-outcomes?).

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Occam's Razor

JUNE 6, 2007

Bonus: Interactive CD: Contains six podcasts, one video, two web analytics metrics definitions documents and five insightful powerpoint presentations. Experimentation & Testing (A/B, Multivariate, you name it). Bonus: Interactive CD. Immediately actionable web analytics (your biggest worries covered).

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The Unofficial Google Data Science Blog

DECEMBER 14, 2021

In this post, we discuss three types of uncertainty: Statistical uncertainty : the gap between the estimand , the unobserved property of the population we wish to measure, and an estimate of it from observed data. Representational uncertainty : the gap between the desired meaning of some measure and its actual meaning.

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Domino Data Lab

JUNE 23, 2019

Skomoroch proposes that managing ML projects are challenging for organizations because shipping ML projects requires an experimental culture that fundamentally changes how many companies approach building and shipping software. These measurement-obsessed companies have an advantage when it comes to AI.

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The Unofficial Google Data Science Blog

APRIL 16, 2019

by MICHAEL FORTE Large-scale live experimentation is a big part of online product development. This means a small and growing product has to use experimentation differently and very carefully. This blog post is about experimentation in this regime. Such decisions involve an actual hypothesis test on specific metrics (e.g.

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Occam's Razor

AUGUST 12, 2013

Last Interaction/Last Click Attribution model. First Interaction/First Click Attribution Model. I strongly encourage you to read the post and deeply understand all three and what your marketing and measurement possibilities and limitations are. Last Interaction/Last Click Attribution model. Linear Attribution Model.

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Corinium

APRIL 25, 2019

For example, P&C insurance strives to understand its customers and households better through data, to provide better customer service and anticipate insurance needs, as well as accurately measure risks. Life insurance needs accurate data on consumer health, age and other metrics of risk.

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The Unofficial Google Data Science Blog

JULY 31, 2016

The analysis can be straightforward, especially when it's safe to assume that individual observations of an outcome measure are independent. The outcome measure we care about is an average of the students' test scores, and so the unit of observation is a student. To figure this out, let's consider an appropriate experimental design.

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AWS Big Data

JULY 26, 2023

Using augmented ML search and generative AI with vector embeddings Organizations across all verticals are rapidly adopting generative AI for its ability to handle vast datasets, generate automated content, and provide interactive, human-like responses. The vector index supports up to 1,000 fields.

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AWS Big Data

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

With a combination of low-latency data streaming and analytics, they are able to understand and personalize the user experience via a seamlessly integrated, self-reliant system for experimentation and automated feedback. Real-time streaming data technologies are essential for digital transformation.

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The Unofficial Google Data Science Blog

MARCH 22, 2018

But what if users don't immediately uptake the new experimental version? Background At Google, experimentation is an invaluable tool for making decisions and inference about new products and features. For example, we might want to stop the process if we measure harmful effects early. What if their uptake rate is not uniform?

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Occam's Razor

JULY 26, 2010

If today you are a content site that is only focused on measuring content consumed try to go deeper to understanding CPA of the ads or Visitor Loyalty. PALM: People Against Lonely Metrics]. So why not your metrics? This is the problem with lonely metrics. Never ever never never never ever present any metric all by itself.

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Occam's Razor

AUGUST 13, 2012

Yehoshua Coren: Best ways to measure user behavior in a multi-touch, multi-device digital world. What's possible to measure. What's not possible to measure. We all have smart phones, laptops, tablets and soon Smart TVs – but most of our measurements are usually done in Cookies that are device/browser specific.

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Domino Data Lab

FEBRUARY 4, 2019

Spoiler alert: a research field called curiosity-driven learning is emerging at the nexis of experimental cognitive psychology and industry use cases for machine learning, particularly in gaming AI. The ability to measure results (risk-reducing evidence). Ensure a culture that supports a steady process of learning and experimentation.

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Occam's Razor

MARCH 23, 2010

Too many new things are happening too fast and those of us charged with measuring it have to change the wheels while the bicycle is moving at 30 miles per hour (and this bicycle will become a car before we know it – all while it keeps moving, ever faster). It has simply not had a break to catch a breath and mature. Likely not.

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Occam's Razor

DECEMBER 12, 2016

AND, that if I have good ideas, they will get to market very quickly – making our engagement worth the current interaction and the continued success of new ideas after the engagement. Digital Marketing & Measurement Model. What one critical metric will help you clearly measure performance for each strategy above?

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Cloudera

JUNE 6, 2019

When a mix of batch, interactive, and data serving workloads are added to the mix, the problem becomes nearly intractable. also includes tools for measuring network latency and cross-sectional bandwidth between compute clusters and base clusters to ensure you have an appropriate networking environment for using VPC.

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Domino Data Lab

MAY 8, 2019

Visualizations are vital in data science work, with the caveat that the information that they convey may be 4-5 layers of abstraction away from the actual business process being measured. measure the subjects’ ability to trust the models’ results. Information can get quite distorted after being abstracted that many times.

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The Unofficial Google Data Science Blog

OCTOBER 21, 2015

It is important to make clear distinctions among each of these, and to advance the state of knowledge through concerted observation, modeling and experimentation. These quasi-explanations usually involve large, real effects and interactions so complex that arguments based on them are often non-falsifiable.

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Occam's Razor

JULY 1, 2008

3 ] Provide you with a bushel of specific multichannel measurement ideas to help quantify the offline impact of your online presence. Why should you care about measuring multichannel impact? There are many jobs your website is doing, it is your job to measure the holistic impact. Bonus Tip : But don't stop there.

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Occam's Razor

AUGUST 23, 2010

Why comes from lab usability studies , website surveys , "follow me home" exercises, experimentation & testing , and other such delightful endeavors. In as much, heuristic evaluations follow a set of well established rules (best practices) in web design and how website visitors experience websites and interact with them.

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Occam's Razor

MAY 27, 2015

In large measure that is because of the rise of programmatic buying. It is being hyper-conservative when it comes to creativity and experimentation because of quant-issues. Bonus: Magnificent Mobile Website And App Analytics: Reports, Metrics, How-to! < The internet today is a fundamental paradigm shift. Fewer guesses.

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Domino Data Lab

AUGUST 26, 2019

To support the iterative and experimental nature of industry work, Domino reached out to Addison-Wesley Professional (AWP) for appropriate permissions to excerpt the “Tuning Hyperparameters and Pipelines” from the book, Machine Learning with Python for Everyone by Mark E. algorithm leaf_size metric metric_params n_jobs n_neighbors p weights.

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datapine

JANUARY 31, 2022

For example, in regards to marketing, traditional advertising methods of spending large amounts of money on TV, radio, and print ads without measuring ROI aren’t working like they used to. They’re about having the mindset of an experimenter and being willing to let data guide a company’s decision-making process. The results?

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Occam's Razor

NOVEMBER 2, 2015

Success Metrics. In my Oct 2011 post, Best Social Media Metrics , I'd created four metrics to quantify this value. For the rest of this post, I'm going to use the first three to capture the essence of social engagement and brand impact, and one to measure impact on the business. . "So It is not that hard.

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O'Reilly on Data

MAY 11, 2020

Many of the models you interact with are mediated through screens, and there’s no shortage of news about how many of us spend our lives glued to them. It predates recommendation engines, social media, engagement metrics, and the recent explosion of AI, but not by much. Let’s start by looking at how models impact us.

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