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Fundamentals of Data Mining

Data Science 101

Data mining is the process of discovering these patterns among the data and is therefore also known as Knowledge Discovery from Data (KDD). He holds a bachelor’s in electrical engineering from National University of Sciences and Technology. He possesses great interest in machine learning, astronomy and history.

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Experiment design and modeling for long-term studies in ads

The Unofficial Google Data Science Blog

A/B testing is used widely in information technology companies to guide product development and improvements. Recently, we presented some basic insights from our effort to measure and predict long-term effects at KDD 2015 [1]. In this blog post, we summarize that paper and refer you to it for details. 2] Ron Kohavi, Randal M.