The Unofficial Google Data Science Blog

JANUARY 16, 2018

We present data from Google Cloud Platform (GCP) as an example of how we use A/B testing when users are connected. Experimentation on networks A/B testing is a standard method of measuring the effect of changes by randomizing samples into different treatment groups. This could create confusion.

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Testing Experimentation Measurement Modeling 58

DataKitchen

OCTOBER 5, 2021

DataOps enables: Rapid experimentation and innovation for the fastest delivery of new insights to customers. Clear measurement and monitoring of results. Instead of focusing on a narrowly defined task with minimal testing and feedback, DataOps focuses on adding value. Create tests. Measure success. Low error rates.

Testing 157

Testing Dashboards Measurement Experimentation 157

CIO Business Intelligence

JUNE 14, 2023

Certifications measure your knowledge and skills against industry- and vendor-specific benchmarks to prove to employers that you have the right skillset. Organization: AWS Price: US$300 How to prepare: Amazon offers free exam guides, sample questions, practice tests, and digital training.

Big Data 126

Big Data Data Analytics Analytics Predictive Modeling 126

Occam's Razor

SEPTEMBER 19, 2011

This: You understand all the environmental variables currently in play, you carefully choose more than one group of "like type" subjects, you expose them to a different mix of media, measure differences in outcomes, prove / disprove your hypothesis (DO FACEBOOK NOW!!!), The nice thing is that you can also test that!

Measurement 119

Measurement Advertising Testing Marketing 119

CIO Business Intelligence

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

Transformational leaders must ensure their organizations have the expertise to integrate new technologies effectively and the follow-through to test and troubleshoot thoroughly before going live. Leaders must clearly define what they want to achieve through digital transformation and how they plan to do it.

Digital Transformation 141

Digital Transformation Cost-Benefit Experimentation Measurement 141

Corinium

JUNE 6, 2019

Fractal’s recommendation is to take an incremental, test and learn approach to analytics to fully demonstrate the program value before making larger capital investments. A properly set framework will ensure quality, timeliness, scalability, consistency, and industrialization in measuring and driving the return on investment.

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Insurance Analytics Forecasting Deep Learning 250

CIO Business Intelligence

JUNE 15, 2023

And while 68% of leaders believe their companies have implemented adequate measures to ensure responsible use of AI, only 29% of their frontline employees feel that way. With familiarity with generative AI being a key factor for its successful adoption, employees must get a chance to test it themselves.

Management 111

Management Experimentation Optimization Enterprise 111

Data Science 101

JANUARY 15, 2020

Researchers/ scientists perform experiments to validate their hypothesis/ statements or to test a new product. Suppose we want to test the effectiveness of a new drug against a particular disease. Reliability: It means measurements should have repeatable results. For eg: you measure the blood pressure of a person.

Experimentation 96

Experimentation Statistics Measurement Testing 96

CIO Business Intelligence

AUGUST 25, 2023

In this conversation with Foundry, Mitali discusses the accelerated importance of technology in healthcare, on enabling healthcare providers with data and why her team isn’t afraid of experimentation. During performance evaluations, one of the criteria my team is measured on is their commitment to gaining new skills.

Experimentation 93

Experimentation Digital Transformation Technology Measurement 93

Alation

DECEMBER 20, 2022

Failing to measure the impact of digital transformation against corporate strategies and OKRs. The measurement of an improvement and transformation is important,” Shaun Guthrie , senior VP of IT at Peavy Industries, points out “[It’s] Not just whether you improved revenue, efficiency, etc., are business problems.”. but by how much.

Digital Transformation 96

Digital Transformation Scorecard Measurement Experimentation 96

Smart Data Collective

JULY 9, 2023

Optimizing Conversion Rates with Data-Driven Strategies A/B Testing and Experimentation for Conversion Rate Optimization A/B testing is essential for discovering which version of your website’s elements are most effective in driving conversions. Take no risks when it comes to protecting data privacy!

Optimization 70

Optimization Data Analytics Analytics Data-driven 70

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. A/B testing is used widely in information technology companies to guide product development and improvements.

Modeling 61

Modeling Experimentation Knowledge Discovery Testing 61

O'Reilly on Data

MARCH 31, 2020

This has serious implications for software testing, versioning, deployment, and other core development processes. The need for an experimental culture implies that machine learning is currently better suited to the consumer space than it is to enterprise companies.

Management 332

Management Machine Learning Experimentation Metrics 332

Ontotext

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

How do you measure its utility? With things like named graphs, layering the data, testing those what-if scenarios, and checking the state is fantastic. We find that as great as SHACL is at ensuring the data quality, testing the RDF pipelines is another matter. Experimentation is important, but be explicit when you do.

Recreation/Entertainment 105

Recreation/Entertainment Data Integration Modeling Data Quality 105

CIO Business Intelligence

AUGUST 16, 2023

But today, Svevia is driving cross-sector digitization projects where new technology for increased safety for road workers and users is tested. We put sensors in the vessels, and with the measurement data we receive, we can see how full they are and plan the routes accordingly,” says Andreas Bäckström, a business developer at Division Drift.

Risk 88

Risk Cost-Benefit Digital Transformation Internet of Things 88

AWS Big Data

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

AWS benchmark The AWS team performed benchmark tests on Spark workloads with Graviton2 on EMR Serverless using the TPC-DS 3 TB scale performance benchmarks. GoDaddy benchmark During our initial experimentation, we observed that arm64 on EMR Serverless consistently outperformed or performed on par with x86_64.

Cost-Benefit 88

Cost-Benefit Big Data Testing Optimization 88

Domino Data Lab

JUNE 13, 2019

Recently, Chhavi Yadav (NYU) and Leon Bottou (Facebook AI Research and NYU) indicated in their paper, “ Cold Case: The Lost MNIST Digits ”, how they reconstructed the MNIST (Modified National Institute of Standards and Technology) dataset and added 50,000 samples to the test set for a total of 60,000 samples. Did they overfit the test set?

Testing 83

Testing Data Science Experimentation Metadata 83

AWS Big Data

AUGUST 21, 2023

In particular, our experimentation shows that hybrid search, combining lexical and vector approaches, typically results in a 15% improvement in search result quality over lexical or vector search alone on industry-standard test sets, as measured by the NDCG@10 metric (Normalized Discounted Cumulative Gain in the first 10 results).

Data Processing 92

Data Processing Experimentation Visualization Metrics 92

Smart Data Collective

FEBRUARY 4, 2020

Phase 0 is the first to involve human testing. Phase I involves dialing-in the proper dosage and further testing in a larger patient pool. An open and impartial AI model should be able to inject a measure of transparency into this process along with the obvious efficiency advantages.

Experimentation 99

Experimentation Testing Modeling Strategy 99

CIO Business Intelligence

APRIL 4, 2022

The early days of the pandemic taught organizations like Avery Dennison the power of agility and experimentation. We are just starting to come back into the office, but in six months we’ll have a much better measure” of efficiencies gained. “I Employee crowdsourcing can yield breakthrough ideas.

Experimentation 133

Experimentation Interactive Business Objectives Manufacturing 133

CIO Business Intelligence

OCTOBER 9, 2023

Hyatt’s experimental mindset and listen-first approach are heavily applied to IT’s pursuit of innovation, he says. In the rush to innovate, teams can forget the basics, such as insufficient testing, so constant monitoring is crucial to ensure you’re providing value, adds TFCU’s Renganathan. He learned that the hard way.

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Strategy Technology Experimentation Testing 136

CIO Business Intelligence

FEBRUARY 21, 2023

The firm’s connected brewery IoT platform, for instance, is being used for data ingestion and edge computing in breweries, enabling local teams to analyze, adjust, test and optimize production processes, with this in-turn allowing operations to leverage real-time and historical data to support the workers on the shop floor.

Digital Transformation 100

Digital Transformation Sales Experimentation Optimization 100

CIO Business Intelligence

AUGUST 17, 2023

“Since the middle of last year, we’ve been analyzing the potential impact, opportunities, and risks of the speed of innovation in this area, as well as introduced policies and implemented measures to minimize risks,” he says. We’re testing ChatGPT at an individual level,” he says. But overall, we see this as a huge opportunity.

Risk 95

Risk Cost-Benefit Strategy Experimentation 95

Data Science and Beyond

APRIL 5, 2021

The initial covid-19 lockdown provided me with extra free time to make the measurement and offsetting of Automattic’s emissions from data centre power use happen. My main "day job" focus in 2020 was on being the tech lead for Automattic’s new experimentation platform (ExPlat).

Experimentation 61

Experimentation Testing Publishing Measurement 61

Sisense

JANUARY 21, 2020

A new drug promising to reduce the risk of heart attack was tested with two groups. Continuing the previous example, let’s assume that blood pressure is known to be a cause for heart attack and the goal of the test drug is to reduce blood pressure. It really depends on the circumstances. Combined 13/60 = 21.67% 11/60 = 18.3%.

Testing 104

Testing Risk Data-driven Statistics 104

IBM Big Data Hub

APRIL 18, 2024

While leaders have some reservations about the benefits of current AI, organizations are actively investing in gen AI deployment, significantly increasing budgets, expanding use cases, and transitioning projects from experimentation to production. This personalized approach might lead to more effective therapies with fewer side effects.

Cost-Benefit 82

Cost-Benefit Modeling Manufacturing Interactive 82

Occam's Razor

APRIL 8, 2013

Sometimes, we escape the clutches of this sub optimal existence and do pick good metrics or engage in simple A/B testing. 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. Testing out a new feature. Form a hypothesis.

Metrics 156

Metrics KPI Analytics Key Performance Indicator 156

AWS Big Data

JANUARY 9, 2024

This functionality was initially released as experimental in OpenSearch Service version 2.4, Hybrid search, the combination of the two methods, gives 14% higher search relevancy (as measured by NDCG@10—a measure of ranking quality) than BM25 alone, so customers want to use hybrid search to get the best of both.

Cost-Benefit 92

Cost-Benefit Visualization Modeling Machine Learning 92

CIO Business Intelligence

MAY 16, 2023

It surpasses blockchain and metaverse projects, which are viewed as experimental or in the pilot stage, especially by established enterprises. Learn how to safeguard data and comply with changing laws, regulations, and operational requirements in Measuring Enterprise Information Governance Maturity.

Advertising 92

Advertising Recreation/Entertainment Experimentation Enterprise 92

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.

Experimentation 41

Experimentation Statistics Metrics Measurement 41

CIO Business Intelligence

OCTOBER 18, 2023

Gen AI boom in the making Many early and established forays into generative AI are being developed on the AI platforms of cloud leaders Microsoft, Google, and Amazon, reportedly with numerous guardrails and governance measures in place to contain unrestricted exploration.

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Risk Manufacturing Enterprise Technology 138

Occam's Razor

AUGUST 22, 2011

Key To Your Digital Success: Web Analytics Measurement Model. " Measuring Incrementality: Controlled Experiments to the Rescue! Barriers To An Effective Web Measurement Strategy [+ Solutions!]. Measuring Online Engagement: What Role Does Web Analytics Play? "Engagement" How Do I Measure Success?

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KPI Metrics Measurement ROI 124

Domino Data Lab

AUGUST 6, 2021

The process of doing data science is about learning from experimentation failures, but inadvertent errors can create enormous risks in model implementation. Outputs for a new problem might not be consistent with the model’s original intent for a different problem without careful research and testing. Model implementation.

Risk Management 64

Risk Management Risk Modeling Enterprise 64

Occam's Razor

NOVEMBER 12, 2006

Mostly because short term goals drive a lot of what we do and if you are selling something on your website then it only seems to make logical sense that we measure conversion rate and get it up as high as we can as fast as we can. So measure Bounce Rate of your website. Even though we should not obsess about conversion rate we do.

Measurement 99

Measurement Analytics Optimization Marketing 99

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. It’s not about just hitting the quarterly numbers. Maybe later.

Technology 59

Technology Risk Digital Transformation Measurement 59

Dataiku

APRIL 22, 2022

For companies with small datasets and a mandate to move beyond experimentation, Frugal AI promises to be a way to overcome this challenge. Learning process frugality is primarily motivated by resource constraints, including limited computational power and limited battery capacity. Today, in 2022, the code (i.e.,

Experimentation 59

Experimentation Modeling Business Objectives Manufacturing 59

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.). Once all packages have been imported, we can move on to loading our test data. TIME – time points of measured pain score and plasma concentration (in hrs). and 3 to 8 hours.

Metrics 59

Metrics Data Science Knowledge Discovery Measurement 59