Occam's Razor

APRIL 8, 2013

First, you figure out what you want to improve; then you create an experiment; then you run the experiment; then you measure the results and decide what to do. For each of them, write down the KPI you're measuring, and what that KPI should be for you to consider your efforts a success. Measure and decide what to do.

Metrics 157

Metrics KPI Analytics Key Performance Indicator 157

CIO Business Intelligence

OCTOBER 15, 2024

Driven by the development community’s desire for more capabilities and controls when deploying applications, DevOps gained momentum in 2011 in the enterprise with a positive outlook from Gartner and in 2015 when the Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe) incorporated DevOps. It may surprise you, but DevOps has been around for nearly two decades.

Enterprise 143

Enterprise Testing Business Objectives Experimentation 143

The Unofficial Google Data Science Blog

OCTOBER 7, 2015

by HENNING HOHNHOLD, DEIRDRE O'BRIEN, and DIANE TANG In this post we discuss the challenges in measuring and modeling the long-term effect of ads on user behavior. Nevertheless, A/B testing has challenges and blind spots, such as: the difficulty of identifying suitable metrics that give "works well" a measurable meaning.

Modeling 63

Modeling Experimentation Knowledge Discovery KDD 63

Occam's Razor

NOVEMBER 2, 2015

In my Oct 2011 post, Best Social Media Metrics , I'd created four metrics to quantify this value. For the rest of this post, I'm going to use the first three to capture the essence of social engagement and brand impact, and one to measure impact on the business. It covers, content, marketing and measurement.

B2B 167

B2B Metrics Recreation/Entertainment Testing 167

Domino Data Lab

AUGUST 6, 2021

It was first defined by the US Federal Reserve and Office of the Comptroller of the Currency ( SR 11-7 ) in April 2011. The process of doing data science is about learning from experimentation failures, but inadvertent errors can create enormous risks in model implementation. Model implementation.

Risk Management 64

Risk Management Risk Modeling Enterprise 64

The Unofficial Google Data Science Blog

MAY 31, 2016

It is important that we can measure the effect of these offline conversions as well. Panel studies make it possible to measure user behavior along with the exposure to ads and other online elements. Let's take a look at larger groups of individuals whose aggregate behavior we can measure. days or weeks).

Advertising 43

Advertising Testing Sales Statistics 43

Occam's Razor

OCTOBER 21, 2013

In late 2011, Google announced an effort to make search behavior more secure. If you want to stress test this,… go back to your 2011 (pre- not provided ) data for paid and organic and see what you can find. Controlled experimentation. Measure the impact (remember you can measure at a Search Engine and Organic/Paid level).

Optimization 156

Optimization Reporting Metrics Experimentation 156