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Towards optimal experimentation in online systems

The Unofficial Google Data Science Blog

If $Y$ at that point is (statistically and practically) significantly better than our current operating point, and that point is deemed acceptable, we update the system parameters to this better value. And we can keep repeating this approach, relying on intuition and luck. Why experiment with several parameters concurrently?

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Why Nonprofits Shouldn’t Use Statistics

Depict Data Studio

— Thank you to Ann Emery, Depict Data Studio, and her Simple Spreadsheets class for inviting us to talk to them about the use of statistics in nonprofit program evaluation! But then we realized that much of the time, statistics just don’t have much of a role in nonprofit work. Why Nonprofits Shouldn’t Use Statistics.

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Bringing an AI Product to Market

O'Reilly on Data

Product Managers are responsible for the successful development, testing, release, and adoption of a product, and for leading the team that implements those milestones. Without clarity in metrics, it’s impossible to do meaningful experimentation. Ongoing monitoring of critical metrics is yet another form of experimentation.

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Belcorp reimagines R&D with AI

CIO Business Intelligence

As Belcorp considered the difficulties it faced, the R&D division noted it could significantly expedite time-to-market and increase productivity in its product development process if it could shorten the timeframes of the experimental and testing phases in the R&D labs. This allowed us to derive insights more easily.”

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What you need to know about product management for AI

O'Reilly on Data

If you’re already a software product manager (PM), you have a head start on becoming a PM for artificial intelligence (AI) or machine learning (ML). Why AI software development is different. This shift requires a fundamental change in your software engineering practice. It’s hard to predict how long an AI project will take.

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Experiment or Die. Five Reasons And Awesome Testing Ideas.

Occam's Razor

There is a tendency to think experimentation and testing is optional. Just don't fall for their bashing of all other vendors or their silly claims, false, of "superiority" in terms of running 19 billion combinations of tests or the bonus feature of helping you into your underwear each morning. And I meant every word of it.

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What is DataOps? Principles and Benefits

Octopai

Common elements of DataOps strategies include: Collaboration between data managers, developers and consumers A development environment conducive to experimentation Rapid deployment and iteration Automated testing Very low error rates. Issue detected? This means that more focused development can happen faster. .