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. But these are not usually amenable to A/B experimentation.

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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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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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Ontotext

APRIL 3, 2024

So, this is a big driver for the outcome because when you are saving money for the business, you can measure it and see its value. Nimit Mehta: I think that 2024 is going to be a buckle-down year, but, at the same time, we’ll see a rapid explosion of experimentation. These are not statistical inferences. What is a customer?

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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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Domino Data Lab

DECEMBER 4, 2020

Domino Lab supports both interactive and batch experimentation with all popular IDEs and notebooks (Jupyter, RStudio, SAS, Zeppelin, etc.). TIME – time points of measured pain score and plasma concentration (in hrs). We can group by study arm and calculate various statistics as mean and standard deviation.

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Occam's Razor

APRIL 8, 2013

First, you figure out what you want to improve; then you create an experiment; then you run the experiment; then you measure the results and decide what to do. For each of them, write down the KPI you're measuring, and what that KPI should be for you to consider your efforts a success. Measure and decide what to do.

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Insight

APRIL 28, 2020

How will they interact with product, engineering, sales, or marketing? you’re looking for a collaborator who can work and communicate well with you and your team, as well as anyone else that interacts with your team. provide an opportunity to measure both. What to evaluate: How will this person contribute to your culture?

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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

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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Alation

SEPTEMBER 28, 2022

In DataOps, data analytics performance is primarily measured through insightful analytics, and accurate data, in robust frameworks. Daily Interactions. Technical environments and IDEs must be disposable so that experimental costs can be kept to a minimum. Value working analytics. Embrace change. It’s a Team Sport. Self-Organize.

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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. Use of influence functions goes back to the 1970s in robust statistics.

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Insight

MARCH 12, 2020

The most powerful approach for the first task is to use a ‘language model’ (LM), i.e. a statistical model of natural language. 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. features) and metadata (i.e.

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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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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. Beyond this, we also get a measure of the variability.

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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). Clicks and outcomes.

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Cloudera

NOVEMBER 25, 2020

And soon also sensor measures, and possibly video or audio data with the increased use of device technology and telemedicine in medical care. Scale to provide 1,000s of researchers frictionless interaction with data. It would enable faster experimentation with easy, protected, and governed access to a variety of data.

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Occam's Razor

FEBRUARY 8, 2021

From observing behavior closely, and from my own experimentation and failure, I've noticed consistent patterns in what great employees do and great bosses do. They find the external author of the statistical algorithm I want them to use, and ask them for guidance. Caring touches all sorts of interactions you’ll have.

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Occam's Razor

MARCH 23, 2010

Part of it is fueled by a vocal minority genuinely upset that 10 years on we are still not a statistically powered bunch doing complicated analysis that is shifting paradigms. Part of it fueled by some Consultants. I suppose the rational is: self preservation before all else. It has simply not had a break to catch a breath and mature.

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