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Towards optimal experimentation in online systems

The Unofficial Google Data Science Blog

Crucially, it takes into account the uncertainty inherent in our experiments. Experiments, Parameters and Models At Youtube, the relationships between system parameters and metrics often seem simple — straight-line models sometimes fit our data well. The data showed us that metrics are not exactly straight-line functions of parameters.

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Business Strategies for Deploying Disruptive Tech: Generative AI and ChatGPT

Rocket-Powered Data Science

Third, any commitment to a disruptive technology (including data-intensive and AI implementations) must start with a business strategy. Those F’s are: Fragility, Friction, and FUD (Fear, Uncertainty, Doubt). These changes may include requirements drift, data drift, model drift, or concept drift.

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Uncertainties: Statistical, Representational, Interventional

The Unofficial Google Data Science Blog

by AMIR NAJMI & MUKUND SUNDARARAJAN Data science is about decision making under uncertainty. Some of that uncertainty is the result of statistical inference, i.e., using a finite sample of observations for estimation. But there are other kinds of uncertainty, at least as important, that are not statistical in nature.

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What you need to know about product management for AI

O'Reilly on Data

AI products are automated systems that collect and learn from data to make user-facing decisions. All you need to know for now is that machine learning uses statistical techniques to give computer systems the ability to “learn” by being trained on existing data. Machine learning adds uncertainty.

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Why CIOs should invest in digital through economic headwinds

CIO Business Intelligence

Experiment with the “highly visible and highly hyped”: Gartner repeatedly pointed out that organisations that innovate during tough economic times “stay ahead of the pack”, with Mesaglio in particular calling for such experimentation to be public and visible.

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10 ways to kill your IT culture

CIO Business Intelligence

Without a strong IT culture, inspiring IT teams to extend beyond their “run the business” responsibilities into areas requiring collaboration between business colleagues, data scientists, and partners is challenging. When changes are made without transparency or input from the team, it breeds uncertainty and resentment.

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Belcorp reimagines R&D with AI

CIO Business Intelligence

These circumstances have induced uncertainty across our entire business value chain,” says Venkat Gopalan, chief digital, data and technology officer, Belcorp. “As The R&D laboratories produced large volumes of unstructured data, which were stored in various formats, making it difficult to access and trace.