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AI Has an Uber Problem

O'Reilly on Data

As Bill Janeway noted in his critique of the capital-fueled bubbles that resulted from the ultra-low interest rates of the decade following the 2007–2009 financial crisis, “ capital is not a strategy.” Venture capitalists don’t have a crystal ball.

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Towards optimal experimentation in online systems

The Unofficial Google Data Science Blog

To find optimal values of two parameters experimentally, the obvious strategy would be to experiment with and update them in separate, sequential stages. Our experimentation platform supports this kind of grouped-experiments analysis, which allows us to see rough summaries of our designed experiments without much work.

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Knowledge

Occam's Razor

The Awesome Power of Visualization 2 -> Death and Taxes 2007. Build A Great Web Experimentation & Testing Program. Experimentation and Testing: A Primer. 2007 Predictions: Web Analytics. Web Analytics Demystified. Six Data Visualizations That Rock! Stop Obsessing About Conversion Rate. Tactical Analysis Articles.

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Changing assignment weights with time-based confounders

The Unofficial Google Data Science Blog

Instead, we focus on the case where an experimenter has decided to run a full traffic ramp-up experiment and wants to use the data from all of the epochs in the analysis. When there are changing assignment weights and time-based confounders, this complication must be considered either in the analysis or the experimental design.

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Full Steam Ahead: CIO Kopal Raj of WABTEC on staying ‘on-track’ with AI, IoT and sustainability goals

CIO Business Intelligence

What are some of the steps that you are taking to foster a culture of innovation and experimentation amongst the employees and customers, and encourage them to move towards digital transformation in in their work? There can be parts of the industry which are still working on redundant legacy systems.

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Measuring Incrementality: Controlled Experiments to the Rescue!

Occam's Razor

Bonus: Here's one of my favorite articles… all the way from 2007 but chock full of pithy valuable lessons for all of us regardless of our field: 41 Timeless Ways to Screw Up Direct Marketing. Having read this post what might be the biggest downside to experimentation? What do you find exciting?

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The Lean Analytics Cycle: Metrics > Hypothesis > Experiment > Act

Occam's Razor

Circle of Friends was a social community built atop Facebook that launched in 2007. Advanced Analytics Big Data Digital Analytics Web Analytics Web Insights Web Metrics actionable analytics business optimization experimentation and testing key performance indicators' Case Study 2: Circle of Friends.

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