The Unofficial Google Data Science Blog

JULY 18, 2023

E ven after we account for disagreement, human ratings may not measure exactly what we want to measure. Researchers and practitioners have been using human-labeled data for many years, trying to understand all sorts of abstract concepts that we could not measure otherwise. That’s the focus of this blog post.

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CIO Business Intelligence

APRIL 16, 2024

However, the NextGen business leaders of family businesses showed uncertainty about the present owners’ and decision makers’ ability to fathom the power of digital transformation. Now, 90% of family businesses are open to private equity investment compared to 18% in 2011. However, the investment landscape is changing fast.

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Peter James Thomas

AUGUST 12, 2018

This piece was prompted by both Olaf’s question and a recent article by my friend Neil Raden on his Silicon Angle blog, Performance management: Can you really manage what you measure? It is hard to account for such tweaking in measurement systems. Some relate to inherent issues with what is being measured.

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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.

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The Unofficial Google Data Science Blog

APRIL 17, 2017

Quantification of forecast uncertainty via simulation-based prediction intervals. First, the system may not be understood, and even if it was understood it may be extremely difficult to measure the relationships that are assumed to govern its behavior. Crucially, our approach does not rely on model performance on holdout samples.

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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).

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