O'Reilly on Data

APRIL 19, 2021

Relatively few respondents are using version control for data and models. Tools for versioning data and models are still immature, but they’re critical for making AI results reproducible and reliable. The biggest skills gaps were ML modelers and data scientists (52%), understanding business use cases (49%), and data engineering (42%).

Enterprise 356

Enterprise Modeling Risk Manufacturing 356

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

Insight

MARCH 12, 2020

The AIgent was built with BERT, Google’s state-of-the-art language model. In this article, I will discuss the construction of the AIgent, from data collection to model assembly. Features: DistilBERT Text Embeddings Once I had a raw dataset, I could begin engineering features and building a natural language processing (NLP) model.

Modeling 59

Modeling Metadata Publishing Sales 59

Octopai

OCTOBER 26, 2022

When DataOps principles are implemented within an organization, you see an increase in collaboration, experimentation, deployment speed and data quality. Continuous pipeline monitoring with SPC (statistical process control). Continuous DataOps metrics testing checks data’s validity, completeness and integrity at input and output.

Data Quality 52

Data Quality Data Analytics Analytics Manufacturing 52

Occam's Razor

MAY 22, 2006

This post is a primer on the delightful world of testing and experimentation (A/B, Multivariate, and a new term from me: Experience Testing). Experimentation and testing help us figure out we are wrong, quickly and repeatedly and if you think about it that is a great thing for our customers, and for our employers. Counter claims?

Experimentation 103

Experimentation Testing Optimization Measurement 103

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. NCA doesn’t require the assumption of a specific compartmental model for either drug or metabolite; it is instead assumption-free and therefore easily automated [1]. Mean residence time. and many others.

Metrics 59

Metrics Data Science Knowledge Discovery Measurement 59

Occam's Razor

MARCH 23, 2021

This is very hard to do, we now have a proven seven-step experimentation process, with one of the coolest algorithms to pick matched-markets (normally the kiss of death of any large-scale geo experiment). The benchmark for the beautiful metric AVOC is 15.3%. What does the diminishing returns curve look like for TV GRPs for our company?

Analytics 131

Analytics Scorecard Strategy Testing 131

Occam's Razor

AUGUST 22, 2011

" ~ Web Metrics: "What is a KPI? " + Standard Metrics Revisited Series. Key To Your Digital Success: Web Analytics Measurement Model. Web Data Quality: A 6 Step Process To Evolve Your Mental Model. "Engagement" Is Not A Metric, It's An Excuse. Experimentation and Testing: A Primer.

KPI 124

KPI Metrics Measurement ROI 124

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. However, the downside of using a larger unit of randomization is that we lose experimental power. We now describe a generative model for how effects might propagate through the network.

Testing 58

Testing Experimentation Measurement Modeling 58

Occam's Razor

JULY 24, 2018

work (collection, processing, reporting, analysis), processes, org structure, governance models, last-mile gaps , metrics ladders of awesomeness , and… so… much… more. Remember, tools, work, processes, org structure, governance models, last-mile gaps, metrics ladders of awesomeness, and… so… much… more. The Impact Matrix.

Analytics 93

Analytics Metrics Strategy Measurement 93

The Unofficial Google Data Science Blog

DECEMBER 14, 2021

Some of that uncertainty is the result of statistical inference, i.e., using a finite sample of observations for estimation. But there are other kinds of uncertainty, at least as important, that are not statistical in nature. Among these, only statistical uncertainty has formal recognition.

Uncertainty 56

Uncertainty Statistics Measurement Cost-Benefit 56

The Unofficial Google Data Science Blog

JUNE 30, 2016

In an ideal world, experimentation through randomization of the treatment assignment allows the identification and consistent estimation of causal effects. Identification We now discuss formally the statistical problem of causal inference. We start by describing the problem using standard statistical notation.

Statistics 44

Statistics Optimization Modeling Experimentation 44

Business Over Broadway

MAY 22, 2019

According to Gartner, companies need to adopt these practices: build culture of collaboration and experimentation; start with a 3-way partnership among executives leading digital initiative, line of business and IT. Remember that digital transformation is about transforming your business and operating models with technology.

Machine Learning 40

Machine Learning Technology Digital Transformation Data Science 40

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. Yet, this challenge is not insurmountable. for what is and isn’t possible) to address these challenges.

Management 110

Management Machine Learning Experimentation Metrics 110

Domino Data Lab

AUGUST 22, 2019

The excerpt covers how to create word vectors and utilize them as an input into a deep learning model. While the field of computational linguistics, or Natural Language Processing (NLP), has been around for decades, the increased interest in and use of deep learning models has also propelled applications of NLP forward within industry.

Deep Learning 111

Deep Learning Modeling Metrics Testing 111

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.

Experimentation 68

Experimentation Sales Metrics Measurement 68

The Unofficial Google Data Science Blog

FEBRUARY 29, 2016

In this post we explore why some standard statistical techniques to reduce variance are often ineffective in this “data-rich, information-poor” realm. Despite a very large number of experimental units, the experiments conducted by LSOS cannot presume statistical significance of all effects they deem practically significant.

Experimentation 40

Experimentation Metrics Statistics Measurement 40

The Unofficial Google Data Science Blog

MAY 31, 2016

A geo experiment is an experiment where the experimental units are defined by geographic regions. This means it is possible to specify exactly in which geos an ad campaign will be served – and to observe the ad spend and the response metric at the geo level. They are non-overlapping geo-targetable regions. by turning campaigns off).

Advertising 42

Advertising Testing Sales Statistics 42

Corinium

APRIL 25, 2019

Life insurance needs accurate data on consumer health, age and other metrics of risk. For example auto insurance companies offering to capture real-time driving statistics from policy-holders’ cars to encourage and reward safe driving. This is a much more proactive and scalable model. The protection policy follows the data.

Insurance 150

Insurance Risk IoT Cost-Benefit 150

The Unofficial Google Data Science Blog

JULY 31, 2016

To figure this out, let's consider an appropriate experimental design. In other words, the teacher is our second kind of unit, the unit of experimentation. This type of experimental design is known as a group-randomized or cluster-randomized trial. When analyzing the outcome measure (e.g.,

Experimentation 42

Experimentation Testing Measurement Metrics 42

Domino Data Lab

MAY 8, 2019

Paco Nathan’s latest article features several emerging threads adjacent to model interpretability. I’ve been out themespotting and this month’s article features several emerging threads adjacent to the interpretability of machine learning models. Machine learning model interpretability. Introduction. 2018-06-21).

Machine Learning 105

Machine Learning Data Science Modeling Visualization 105

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. by DANIEL PERCIVAL Randomized experiments are invaluable in making product decisions, including on mobile apps.

Experimentation 62

Experimentation Measurement Modeling Statistics 62

Occam's Razor

NOVEMBER 17, 2008

There is a tendency to think experimentation and testing is optional. So you don't have to worry about integrations with analytics tools, you don't have to worry about rushing to get a PhD in Statistics to interpret results and what not. So as my tiny gift for you here are five experimentation and testing ideas for you.

Testing 112

Testing Experimentation Risk Optimization 112

Domino Data Lab

AUGUST 26, 2019

Data scientists, machine learning (ML) researchers, and business stakeholders have a high-stakes investment in the predictive accuracy of models. Data scientists and researchers ascertain predictive accuracy of models using different techniques, methodologies, and settings, including model parameters and hyperparameters.

Testing 79

Testing Modeling Machine Learning Metrics 79

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. Because every tool uses its own sweet metrics definitions, cookie rules, session start and end rules and so much more. Part of it fueled by some Consultants.

Analytics 118

Analytics Consulting Metrics Experimentation 118

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. Note also that this account does not involve ambiguity due to statistical uncertainty. We sliced and diced the experimental data in many many ways.

Slice and Dice 45

Slice and Dice Experimentation Data-driven Data Science 45

Occam's Razor

JANUARY 9, 2012

If you are doing lame stuff, why try harder in an analytics context by asking for Economic Value or Visitor Loyalty or Conversation Rate or a thousand other super powerful and insightful metrics ? Our mental model has not shifted enough to the existing reality. Fill it with the best web metrics to measure success.

Marketing 140

Marketing B2B Measurement Risk 140

The Unofficial Google Data Science Blog

OCTOBER 12, 2017

1]" Statistics, as a discipline, was largely developed in a small data world. With more features come more potential post hoc hypotheses about what is driving metrics of interest, and more opportunity for exploratory analysis. Data was expensive to gather, and therefore decisions to collect data were generally well-considered.

Experimentation 61

Experimentation Testing Statistics Metrics 61

IBM Big Data Hub

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

Uber’s DNA as an analytics company At its core, Uber’s business model is deceptively simple: connect a customer at point A to their destination at point B. Next, they build model data sets out of the snapshots, cleanse and deduplicate the data, and prepare it for analysis as Parquet files. It lands as raw data in HDFS.

OLAP 92

OLAP Data Lake Data-driven Snapshot 92