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6 enterprise DevOps mistakes to avoid

CIO Business Intelligence

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. CrowdStrike recently made the news about a failed deployment impacting 8.5

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Drug Discovery Needs AI To Discover More Treatments

Smart Data Collective

Phase 0 is the first to involve human testing. Phase I involves dialing-in the proper dosage and further testing in a larger patient pool. In a report on the failure rates of drug discovery efforts between 2013 and 2015, Richard K. Researching and developing new drugs involves multiple steps called “Phases.”

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Changing assignment weights with time-based confounders

The Unofficial Google Data Science Blog

Another reason to use ramp-up is to test if a website's infrastructure can handle deploying a new arm to all of its users. The website wants to make sure they have the infrastructure to handle the feature while testing if engagement increases enough to justify the infrastructure. We offer two examples where this may be the case.

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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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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. 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.

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Transforming IT from cost center to catalyst

CIO Business Intelligence

In 2015, we attempted to introduce the concept of big data and its potential applications for the oil and gas industry. I built it externally for $50,000 in just five weeks—from concept to market testing. By adopting a lean startup approach, organizations can balance experimentation with risk mitigation.

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Themes and Conferences per Pacoid, Episode 11

Domino Data Lab

For more background about program synthesis, check out “ Program Synthesis Explained ” by James Bornholt from 2015, as well as the more recent “ Program Synthesis in 2017-18 ” by Alex Polozov from 2018. For details, see their SIGMOD 2015 paper where Michael Armbrust & co. This field is guaranteed to get interesting. SQL and Spark.

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