The Unofficial Google Data Science Blog

APRIL 23, 2024

the weight given to Likes in our video recommendation algorithm) while $Y$ is a vector of outcome measures such as different metrics of user experience (e.g., Experiments, Parameters and Models At Youtube, the relationships between system parameters and metrics often seem simple — straight-line models sometimes fit our data well.

Experimentation 52

Experimentation Optimization Uncertainty Metrics 52

CIO Business Intelligence

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

We developed a model to predict student outcomes based on metrics from historical evidence,” he says. “We We’ve done a lot of experimentation on these adaptive tools that use AI,” says Ventimiglia. The AI skillset is becoming critical for employability for many students,” adds Sheehan.

Recreation/Entertainment 130

Recreation/Entertainment Experimentation Modeling Data-driven 130

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. It is also important to have a strong test and learn culture to encourage rapid experimentation. What is the most common mistake people make around data?

Insurance 250

Insurance Analytics Forecasting Deep Learning 250

AWS Big Data

AUGUST 21, 2023

It similarly codes the query as a vector and then uses a distance metric to find nearby vectors in the multi-dimensional space. The algorithm for finding nearby vectors is called kNN (k Nearest Neighbors). Of course, production-quality search experiences use many more techniques to improve results.

Data Processing 89

Data Processing Experimentation Visualization Metrics 89

Occam's Razor

MARCH 23, 2021

I lovingly call our strategy analytics on the bleeding edge. upgrades to processes to create deeper integration with Finance & Strategy teams. What may or may not be as common, but is an integral part of our analytics strategy is the extensive use of controlled experiments to answer life’s hardest questions. The slow music.

Analytics 131

Analytics Scorecard Strategy Testing 131

CIO Business Intelligence

MAY 16, 2023

To gain perspective, Iron Mountain sponsored research by Quadrant Strategies, which used digital listening technologies to study public online conversation trends among enterprise decision-makers. It surpasses blockchain and metaverse projects, which are viewed as experimental or in the pilot stage, especially by established enterprises.

Advertising 92

Advertising Recreation/Entertainment Experimentation Enterprise 92

Octopai

OCTOBER 26, 2022

When DataOps principles are implemented within an organization, you see an increase in collaboration, experimentation, deployment speed and data quality. SPC is the continuous testing of the results of automated manufacturing processes. SPC tests can do the same thing for the data flowing through your pipelines.

Data Quality 52

Data Quality Data Analytics Analytics Manufacturing 52

Occam's Razor

AUGUST 22, 2011

" ~ Web Metrics: "What is a KPI? " + Standard Metrics Revisited Series. Barriers To An Effective Web Measurement Strategy [+ Solutions!]. "Engagement" Is Not A Metric, It's An Excuse. Defining a "Master Metric", + a Framework to Gain a Competitive Advantage in Web Analytics.

KPI 124

KPI Metrics Measurement ROI 124

AWS Big Data

JANUARY 9, 2024

It similarly codes the query as a vector and then uses a distance metric to find nearby vectors in the multi-dimensional space to find matches. This functionality was initially released as experimental in OpenSearch Service version 2.4, This is also called embedding the text into the vector space.

Cost-Benefit 88

Cost-Benefit Visualization Modeling Machine Learning 88

CIO Business Intelligence

JUNE 27, 2022

I’m now primarily focused on product strategy, organizational efficiency, and generally trying to make sure we don’t forget where we came from, especially around the open source side of things. We rely heavily on automated testing. Tyson: That belief in your vision when it’s tested—that is tough! I thought, really?!

Software 104

Software Experimentation Testing Marketing 104

Occam's Razor

OCTOBER 21, 2013

As an analyst, I was upset that this change would hurt my ability to analyze the effectiveness of my beloved search engine optimization (SEO) efforts – which are really all about finding the right users using optimal content strategies. This in turn mandates new SEO (and PPC) strategies, if we don't want to fail.

Optimization 154

Optimization Reporting Experimentation Metrics 154

O'Reilly on Data

MAY 14, 2020

AI PMs should enter feature development and experimentation phases only after deciding what problem they want to solve as precisely as possible, and placing the problem into one of these categories. Experimentation: It’s just not possible to create a product by building, evaluating, and deploying a single model.

Management 363

Management Experimentation B2B Machine Learning 363

Occam's Razor

JULY 6, 2016

Yes, I worry that Analysts, and Marketers, are spending too much time with their head buried in custom reports and advance segments and smart calculated metrics and strategic or tactical dashboards. Lab usability testing and online surveys both provide great strategies to obsess about user centric design. United Breaks Hearts.

Testing 86

Testing Marketing Experimentation Cost-Benefit 86

Insight

MARCH 12, 2020

I tested several different flavors of BERT for use as synopsis classifiers before settling on the DistilBERT model from Hugging Face. After some experimentation, I landed on a strategy I’ll call ‘warm encoding’: if greater than 1% of tags were in a particular class, I encoded the book as belonging to that class, non-exclusively.

Modeling 59

Modeling Metadata Publishing Sales 59

Occam's Razor

FEBRUARY 26, 2008

" Or " I proposed testing / surveys / competitive intelligence / Analysts but I was shot down." Here are 6 strategies you can use to bring the voice of the customer and perspective from competitors to the table, and win big (!!). # 1: Implement a Experimentation & Testing Program. #

Management 68

Management Experimentation Testing Strategy 68

CIO Business Intelligence

MARCH 5, 2024

Many other platforms, such as Coveo’s Relative Generative Answering , Quickbase AI , and LaunchDarkly’s Product Experimentation , have embedded virtual assistant capabilities but don’t brand them copilots. Today, top AI-assistant capabilities delivering results include generating code, test cases, and documentation.

Cost-Benefit 119

Cost-Benefit Advertising Experimentation Software 119

DataKitchen

APRIL 13, 2021

Testing and Data Observability. It orchestrates complex pipelines, toolchains, and tests across teams, locations, and data centers. Prefect Technologies — Open-source data engineering platform that builds, tests, and runs data workflows. Testing and Data Observability. Production Monitoring and Development Testing.

Testing 307

Testing Machine Learning Consulting Data Quality 307

datapine

FEBRUARY 4, 2020

Let’s face it: every serious business that wants to generate leads and revenue needs to have a marketing strategy that will help them in their quest for profit. It is utilized to effectively communicate a company’s marketing strategy, including research, promotional tactics, goals and expected outcomes. Structure your metrics.

Reporting 280

Reporting Marketing Advertising Metrics 280

datapine

MAY 20, 2020

A CRM dashboard is a centralized hub of information that presents customer relationship management data in a way that is dynamic, interactive, and offers access to a wealth of insights that can improve your consumer-facing strategies and communications. Test, tweak, evolve. Work through your narrative.

Dashboards 265

Dashboards Reporting KPI Visualization 265

Occam's Razor

NOVEMBER 13, 2009

Chapter 2 The Optimal Strategy for Choosing Your Web Analytics Soul Mate. Chapter 3 The Awesome World of Clickstream Analysis: Metrics. The second half shows exactly how to pick the best metrics for your org and, my absolute favorite (Page 64), how to diagnose the root cause of a metrics performance. A good thing.

Analytics 71

Analytics Metrics Measurement Testing 71

Occam's Razor

DECEMBER 9, 2009

The four pronged real world tested probing and loaded with politics framework to find a home for Web Analytics: 1. Should I go with a centralized or decentralized or some other strategy (more on this below)? If the overall organization is not very savvy analytically (and it is large) then the strategy will be very different.

Analytics 95

Analytics Data-driven Marketing Sales 95

Occam's Razor

SEPTEMBER 15, 2014

Nothing I can tell you about the importance of having an incredible mobile strategy will surprise you. If you look at the mobile marketing strategies, you will see they don't reflect this shift to mobile. Create a distinct mobile website and mobile app measurement strategies. Media-Mix Modeling/Experimentation.

Metrics 141

Metrics Reporting Analytics Marketing 141

CIO Business Intelligence

APRIL 18, 2022

While it’s critical for tech leaders to communicate throughout a digital project, it’s also important to communicate appropriately, says Rich Nanda, US strategy and analytics offerings leader, at Deloitte Consulting. Rich Nanda, US strategy and analytics offerings leader, Deloitte Consulting. Deloitte Consulting. “In

Digital Transformation 145

Digital Transformation Dashboards Cost-Benefit Consulting 145

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. Another pattern that I’ve seen in good PMs is that they’re very metric-driven. Transcript.

Management 110

Management Machine Learning Experimentation Metrics 110

DataKitchen

JANUARY 17, 2022

It may take six weeks to add a new schema, but the VP may say she needs it for this Friday’s strategy summit. Testing and validating analytics took as long or longer than creating the analytics. Customers and market forces drive deadlines and timeframes for analytics deliverables regardless of the level of effort required.

Experimentation 130

Experimentation Data Lake Marketing Predictive Modeling 130

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. A naïve way to solve this problem would be to compare the proportion of buyers between the exposed and unexposed groups, using a simple test for equality of means.

Statistics 44

Statistics Optimization Modeling Experimentation 44

CIO Business Intelligence

FEBRUARY 3, 2023

He says that IT remains largely in-house across helpdesk, data analytics, cybersecurity and development, bar small pockets of outsourced capability for software development and testing, and suggests that business growth hasn’t been the only challenge—not least in the days after Queen Elizabeth II’s death last September.

IT 52

IT Experimentation Scorecard Digital Transformation 52

AWS Big Data

JULY 26, 2023

The vector engine supports the popular distance metrics such as Euclidean, cosine similarity, and dot product, and can accommodate 16,000 dimensions, making it well-suited to support a wide range of foundational and other AI/ML models. To create the vector index, you must define the vector field name, dimensions, and the distance metric.

Metadata 52

Metadata Cost-Benefit Testing Metrics 52

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

JULY 31, 2016

At the end of the semester, you administer a proficiency test to the students and compare test performance across the groups. For example, you might compare the average test score among students exposed to the new curriculum to the average score among the controls. Sounds straightforward, right?

Experimentation 42

Experimentation Testing Measurement Metrics 42

DataRobot Blog

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

In this example, we take a deep dive into how real estate companies can effectively use AI to automate their investment strategies. The real estate market changes over time, so it’s important that our model learns from past data and is tested on a time frame from the future.

Modeling 52

Modeling Machine Learning Cost-Benefit Metrics 52

Cloudera

JUNE 6, 2019

Multi-tenancy Strategies with Virtual Private Clusters. Prior to using Virtual Private Clusters, cluster admins need to decide on an isolation strategy for the compute-only clusters. Here are three possible strategies they may consider: 1) By user, team, or business unit. In other words, tenants map to human beings.

Metadata 85

Metadata Data Lake Optimization Strategy 85

Occam's Razor

MARCH 23, 2010

Because every tool uses its own sweet metrics definitions, cookie rules, session start and end rules and so much more. Usually at least a test. Meanwhile see if you can convince your HiPPO to run a small test while you look for a case study (and a job). ]. Usually for free. Usually with a modest effort.

Analytics 118

Analytics Consulting Metrics Experimentation 118

The Unofficial Google Data Science Blog

DECEMBER 14, 2021

It was now a business decision to decide whether to pursue this radical strategy given the projected hit to metrics. Concerned with assessing impact, DS has a particularly important role to play here in defining success and choosing metrics. Should we use a t-test or a sign test? Royal Society 1922 ). Finland).

Uncertainty 56

Uncertainty Statistics Measurement Cost-Benefit 56

Occam's Razor

OCTOBER 23, 2006

‡ Never start with clickstream, it becomes “old” quickly ‡ People care about their paychecks ‡ Execution strategy: ~ Identify Senior Management hot buttons ~ Exhibit daily that you can • increase revenue • trim costs • improve customer satisfaction. Attend strategy and operational meetings.

Data-driven 117

Data-driven Metrics KPI Reporting 117

Occam's Razor

AUGUST 13, 2012

That means: All of these metrics are off. If you want to make the smartest decisions about your budget allocation then leveraging the time tested methodology of media mix modeling (at its core powered by controlled experiments) is the only way to go. Pick metrics that matter. Hopefully soon! Edward Cowell. "Was

Modeling 124

Modeling Metrics Data Quality Data-driven 124

Domino Data Lab

AUGUST 26, 2019

This control prevents overfitting and reduction in predictive accuracy on new test data. If we don’t like the result of testing after training, we can also select an entirely different learning machine with different internals. algorithm leaf_size metric metric_params n_jobs n_neighbors p weights.

Testing 79

Testing Modeling Machine Learning Metrics 79