Occam's Razor

APRIL 8, 2013

We are far too enamored with data collection and reporting the standard metrics we love because others love them because someone else said they were nice so many years ago. To win in business you need to follow this process: Metrics > Hypothesis > Experiment > Act. Online, offline or nonline.

Metrics 157

Metrics KPI Analytics Key Performance Indicator 157

AWS Big Data

JULY 3, 2023

Major market indexes, such as S&P 500, are subject to periodic inclusions and exclusions for reasons beyond the scope of this post (for an example, refer to CoStar Group, Invitation Homes Set to Join S&P 500; Others to Join S&P 100, S&P MidCap 400, and S&P SmallCap 600 ). Load the dataset into Amazon S3.

Snapshot 95

Snapshot Data Lake Testing Strategy 95

IBM Big Data Hub

MARCH 27, 2024

Some companies attempt to estimate Scope 3 emissions by collecting data from suppliers and manually categorizing data, but progress is hindered by challenges such as large supplier base, depth of supply chains, complex data collection processes and substantial resource requirements.

Experimentation 73

Experimentation Deep Learning Modeling Data-driven 73

Ontotext

MAY 18, 2020

Ever since Hippocrates founded his school of medicine in ancient Greece some 2,500 years ago, writes Hannah Fry in her book Hello World: Being Human in the Age of Algorithms , what has been fundamental to healthcare (as she calls it “the fight to keep us healthy”) was observation, experimentation and the analysis of data.

Knowledge Discovery 72

Knowledge Discovery Experimentation Data-driven Metadata 72

Cloudera

JUNE 6, 2019

We sometimes refer to this as splitting “dev/test” from “production” workloads, but we can generalize the approach by referring to the overall priority of the workload for the business. A third strategy splits clusters based on the overall priority of the workloads running on those clusters.

Metadata 86

Metadata Data Lake Optimization Strategy 86

O'Reilly on Data

JULY 28, 2020

Without clarity in metrics, it’s impossible to do meaningful experimentation. AI PMs must ensure that experimentation occurs during three phases of the product lifecycle: Phase 1: Concept During the concept phase, it’s important to determine if it’s even possible for an AI product “ intervention ” to move an upstream business metric.

Marketing 364

Marketing Experimentation Metrics Testing 364

The Unofficial Google Data Science Blog

OCTOBER 12, 2017

Implicitly, there was a prior belief about some interesting causal mechanism or an underlying hypothesis motivating the collection of the data. As computing and storage have made data collection cheaper and easier, we now gather data without this underlying motivation.

Experimentation 62

Experimentation Testing Statistics Metrics 62

Occam's Razor

OCTOBER 19, 2010

so you have some reference as to where each item fits (and this will also make it easier for you to pick tools for the priority order referenced in Context #3 above). Move from a data collection obsession and develop a crush on data analysys. Experimentation and Testing Tools [The "Why" – Part 1]. Three tools.

Analytics 136

Analytics Testing Measurement Optimization 136

Domino Data Lab

FEBRUARY 4, 2019

We’ll unpack curiosity as a core attribute of effective data science, look at how that informs process for data science (in contrast to Agile, etc.), and dig into details about where science meets rhetoric in data science. That body of work has much to offer the practice of leading data science teams.

Data Science 66

Data Science Experimentation Machine Learning Data-driven 66

Occam's Razor

MAY 27, 2015

Today's primary use of the word programmatic refers to the use of ad exchanges, real-time bidding (RTB), Demand-side Platforms (DSPs) etc. It is an investment in numerous report writers or data (puking) automation or hiring a small army in India or Philippines to do that, before investing in any smart Analyst.

Marketing Analytics 155

Marketing Analytics Marketing Analytics Advertising 155

Insight

MARCH 12, 2020

In this article, I will discuss the construction of the AIgent, from data collection to model assembly. Data Collection The AIgent leverages book synopses and book metadata. The latter is any type of external data that has been attached to a book? Text synopses are ‘tokenized’ with the aid of a reference library.

Modeling 59

Modeling Metadata Publishing Sales 59