Occam's Razor

NOVEMBER 2, 2015

Higher Order Bits: Human vs. Business, Success KPIs, S-T-D-C Framework, MoR Test. In my Oct 2011 post, Best Social Media Metrics , I'd created four metrics to quantify this value. It is pronounced the more test. It is an acronym for a test I often use in my consulting engagements. It stands for: Money off Roof test.

B2B 167

B2B Metrics Recreation/Entertainment Testing 167

Smart Data Collective

FEBRUARY 14, 2023

The best part is that many of these web apps are using AI technology to provide the optimal user experience. Web developers know that they’re working within the constraints of a browser, so they tend to optimize their product to operate as efficiently as possible with fewer computing resources.

Risk 136

Risk Technology Optimization Machine Learning 136

AWS Big Data

JULY 16, 2024

The new approach would need to offer the flexibility to integrate new technologies such as machine learning (ML), scalability to handle long-term retention at forecasted growth levels, and provide options for cost optimization. Zurich has done testing with Amazon SageMaker and has plans to add this capability in the near future.

Insurance 130

Insurance Management Cost-Benefit Optimization 130

IBM Big Data Hub

MARCH 25, 2022

We founded MemSQL (the original name of SingleStore) in 2011. Around 2011, we worked with a hot gaming company with a real-time analytics use case to understand what their users were doing in the moment to optimize the gaming experience by monitoring how users interacted with the game. I built databases my whole career.

Data-driven 69

Data-driven Data Warehouse Data Processing Marketing 69

The Unofficial Google Data Science Blog

OCTOBER 7, 2015

A/B testing is used widely in information technology companies to guide product development and improvements. For questions as disparate as website design and UI, prediction algorithms, or user flows within apps, live traffic tests help developers understand what works well for users and the business, and what doesn’t.

Modeling 63

Modeling Experimentation Knowledge Discovery KDD 63

Occam's Razor

FEBRUARY 22, 2010

Feel better? : ) When should you start doing paid search advertising for tours to Italy for 2011? The secret to making optimal use of CI data lies in one single realization: You must ensure you understand how the data you are analyzing is collected. The Optimal Competitive Analysis Process. In May 2010 (!). use to your benefit.

Metrics 124

Metrics Advertising Reporting Data Collection 124

Domino Data Lab

SEPTEMBER 25, 2019

For an illustration, we will make use of the World Bank API to download gross domestic product (GDP) for a number of countries from 1960 through 2011. Fortunately, the forecast package has a number of functions to make working with time series data easier, including determining the optimal number of diffs. > library(forecast).

Forecasting 87

Forecasting Modeling Statistics Optimization 87

Domino Data Lab

AUGUST 22, 2019

Note: A test set of 19,500 such analogies was developed by Tomas Mikolov and his colleagues in their 2013 word2vec paper. This test set is available at download.tensorflow.org/data/questions-words.txt.]. Relative to extrinsic evaluations, intrinsic tests are quick. Note that the final test word in Table 11.2—ma’am—is

Deep Learning 111

Deep Learning Modeling Metrics Testing 111

AWS Big Data

APRIL 5, 2023

We went through user research, development, and beta tests in a span of 6 months, which was a fast turnaround and a big win for us,” says Minnaert. Showpad also continues to expand the in-product reporting while continuing to optimize performance for the best customer experience.

Dashboards 52

Dashboards Reporting Cost-Benefit Visualization 52

Domino Data Lab

MARCH 3, 2019

I’m here mostly to provide McLuhan quotes and test the patience of our copy editors with hella Californian colloquialisms. Even so, it’s likely that reproducibility and hyperparameter optimization are problems which tend to show up after the earlier issues have been resolved and when there are larger, more complex ML projects underway.

Data Science 49

Data Science Deep Learning Machine Learning Modeling 49

Occam's Razor

OCTOBER 21, 2013

In late 2011, Google announced an effort to make search behavior more secure. As an analyst, I was upset that this change would hurt my ability to analyze the effectiveness of my beloved search engine optimization (SEO) efforts – which are really all about finding the right users using optimal content strategies.

Optimization 156

Optimization Reporting Metrics Experimentation 156

CIO Business Intelligence

APRIL 9, 2025

2011 Turing Award winner Judea Pearls landmark work The Book of Why (2020) explains it well when he states that correlation is not causation and you are smarter than your data. For example, an analytics dashboard that correlates shipping data gaps in a logistics view could be correlated to quantities released for distribution in a warehouse.

Enterprise 102

Enterprise Analytics Experimentation Statistics 102

CIO Business Intelligence

MARCH 10, 2022

Fujitsu remains very much interested in the mainframe market, with a new model still on its roadmap for 2024, and a move under way to “shift its mainframes and UNIX servers to the cloud, gradually enhancing its existing business systems to optimize the experience for its end-users.” years after its launch in June 2006.

Sales 130

Sales Testing Experimentation Data Processing 130

Occam's Razor

APRIL 25, 2011

This latter category contains things that are so obviously sub-optimal that no one should be doing them any more. Sophisticated Search Engine Optimization is mandatory in our world of Bing / Yandex / Baidu / Google. " I'd postulated this rule in 2005, it is even more true in 2011. Yet there they are. The 10/90 rule.

Marketing 127

Marketing Metrics Measurement Testing 127

Occam's Razor

SEPTEMBER 13, 2016

If you are curious, here is a April 2011 post: The Difference Between Web Reporting And Web Analysis. Take this as an example… How do you know that this is a profoundly sub-optimal collection of choices to provide? If these 50 pass the sniff test, send the survey. But, that's as close as it gets. Look for them!

Modeling 128

Modeling Reporting Strategy Consulting 128

Occam's Razor

SEPTEMBER 24, 2012

So to imply the ROI in Step 4 is sub-optimal. Based on results of value identified for Facebook, optimize their advertising mix strategy for future product launches. It is possible to get good test and control groups (type of population, existing brand awareness, market penetration, competitive structures) for our experiments.

Advertising 165

Advertising Metrics ROI Marketing 165

The Unofficial Google Data Science Blog

OCTOBER 12, 2017

Yet when we use these tools to explore data and look for anomalies or interesting features, we are implicitly formulating and testing hypotheses after we have observed the outcomes. We must correct for multiple hypothesis tests. In addition to the issues above, does the conclusion pass the smell test?

Experimentation 62

Experimentation Testing Statistics Metrics 62

Domino Data Lab

JULY 9, 2019

A “data scientist” might build a multistage processing pipeline in Python, design a hypothesis test, perform a regression analysis over data samples with R, design and implement an algorithm in Hadoop, or communicate the results of our analyses to other members of the organization in a clear and concise fashion.

Data Science 112

Data Science Machine Learning Advertising Modeling 112

CIO Business Intelligence

DECEMBER 11, 2024

Transport for New South Wales was first established in 2011, and since then, the culture of putting customers and communities at the center of everything, and partnering with operational agencies, private operators, and industry to deliver passenger focus services and projects, has been a constant.

Cost-Benefit 52

Cost-Benefit Technology Testing Management 52