Data Science 101

JANUARY 15, 2020

Some pitfalls of this type of experimentation include: Suppose an experiment is performed to observe the relationship between the snack habit of a person while watching TV. Reliability: It means measurements should have repeatable results. For eg: you measure the blood pressure of a person. Statistics Essential for Dummies by D.

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O'Reilly on Data

MARCH 31, 2020

All you need to know for now is that machine learning uses statistical techniques to give computer systems the ability to “learn” by being trained on existing data. You might establish a baseline by replicating collaborative filtering models published by teams that built recommenders for MovieLens, Netflix, and Amazon.

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Occam's Razor

FEBRUARY 7, 2022

Since you're reading a blog on advanced analytics, I'm going to assume that you have been exposed to the magical and amazing awesomeness of experimentation and testing. And yet, chances are you really don’t know anyone directly who uses experimentation as a part of their regular business practice. Wah wah wah waaah.

Experimentation 101

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Insight

MARCH 12, 2020

There was only one problem: literary agents, the gatekeepers of the publishing industry, kept rejecting the book?—?often Galbraith eventually opted to publish Cuckoo’s Calling through an acquaintance of sorts. but the publishing industry failed to see it. often without even looking at it. In other words, Galbraith had chops?—?but

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Insight

APRIL 28, 2020

You’ll often see the name “data challenge” used when the take-home assignment involves machine learning or statistics or “coding challenge” when the focus is on evaluating a candidate’s software engineering skills. provide an opportunity to measure both. Length: Highly Variable.

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The Unofficial Google Data Science Blog

JULY 22, 2020

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.

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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. In fact, this blog has published posts on this very topic. This means a small and growing product has to use experimentation differently and very carefully. This blog post is about experimentation in this regime.

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