Occam's Razor

MAY 22, 2006

This post is a primer on the delightful world of testing and experimentation (A/B, Multivariate, and a new term from me: Experience Testing). Experimentation and testing help us figure out we are wrong, quickly and repeatedly and if you think about it that is a great thing for our customers, and for our employers. Counter claims?

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DataKitchen

JANUARY 20, 2021

Centralizing analytics helps the organization standardize enterprise-wide measurements and metrics. With a standard metric supported by a centralized technical team, the organization maintains consistency in analytics. The center of excellence (COE) model leverages the DataOps team to solve real-world challenges.

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Occam's Razor

AUGUST 12, 2013

than multi-channel attribution modeling. By the time you are done with this post you'll have complete knowledge of what's ugly and bad when it comes to attribution modeling. You'll know how to use the good model, even if it is far from perfect. Multi-Channel Attribution Models. Linear Attribution Model.

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CIO Business Intelligence

MARCH 19, 2025

Mark Brooks, who became CIO of Reinsurance Group of America in 2023, did just that, and restructured the technology organization to support the platform, redefined the programs success metrics, and proved to the board that IT is a good steward of the dollar. One significant change we made was in our use of metrics to challenge my team.

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CIO Business Intelligence

JANUARY 21, 2025

With traditional OCR and AI models, you might get 60% straight-through processing, 70% if youre lucky, but now generative AI solves all of the edge cases, and your processing rates go up to 99%, Beckley says. In 2024, departments and teams experimented with gen AI tools tied to their workflows and operating metrics.

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DataKitchen

APRIL 13, 2021

DataOps needs a directed graph-based workflow that contains all the data access, integration, model and visualization steps in the data analytic production process. A complete DataOps program will have a unified, system-wide view of process metrics using a common data store. Datatron — Automates deployment and monitoring of AI models.

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AWS Big Data

NOVEMBER 19, 2024

Customers maintain multiple MWAA environments to separate development stages, optimize resources, manage versions, enhance security, ensure redundancy, customize settings, improve scalability, and facilitate experimentation. micro, remember to monitor its performance using the recommended metrics to maintain optimal operation.

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Rocket-Powered Data Science

JULY 6, 2021

MLOps takes the modeling, algorithms, and data wrangling out of the experimental “one off” phase and moves the best models into deployment and sustained operational phase. the monitoring of very important operational ML characteristics: data drift, concept drift, and model security).

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Occam's Razor

AUGUST 13, 2012

Yehoshua I've covered this topic in detail in this blog post: Multi-Channel Attribution: Definitions, Models and a Reality Check. I explain three different models (Online to Store, Across Multiple Devices, Across Digital Channels) and for each I've highlighted: 1. That means: All of these metrics are off.

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DataRobot Blog

DECEMBER 6, 2022

Other organizations are just discovering how to apply AI to accelerate experimentation time frames and find the best models to produce results. Taking a Multi-Tiered Approach to Model Risk Management. Learn how to leverage Google BigQuery large datasets for large scale Time Series forecasting models in the DataRobot AI platform.

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datapine

FEBRUARY 4, 2020

Structure your metrics. As with any report you might need to create, structuring and implementing metrics that will tell an interesting and educational data-story is crucial in our digital age. That way you can choose the best possible metrics for your case. Regularly monitor your data. 1) Marketing CMO report.

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AWS Big Data

JANUARY 15, 2025

EUROGATEs data science team aims to create machine learning models that integrate key data sources from various AWS accounts, allowing for training and deployment across different container terminals. Insights from ML models can be channeled through Amazon DataZone to inform internal key decision makers internally and external partners.

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The Unofficial Google Data Science Blog

APRIL 23, 2024

the weight given to Likes in our video recommendation algorithm) while $Y$ is a vector of outcome measures such as different metrics of user experience (e.g., Experiments, Parameters and Models At Youtube, the relationships between system parameters and metrics often seem simple — straight-line models sometimes fit our data well.

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IBM Big Data Hub

MAY 17, 2024

Cloud maturity models are a useful tool for addressing these concerns, grounding organizational cloud strategy and proceeding confidently in cloud adoption with a plan. Cloud maturity models (or CMMs) are frameworks for evaluating an organization’s cloud adoption readiness on both a macro and individual service level.

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Domino Data Lab

AUGUST 22, 2019

The excerpt covers how to create word vectors and utilize them as an input into a deep learning model. While the field of computational linguistics, or Natural Language Processing (NLP), has been around for decades, the increased interest in and use of deep learning models has also propelled applications of NLP forward within industry.

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CIO Business Intelligence

JULY 11, 2023

In recent years, we have witnessed a tidal wave of progress and excitement around large language models (LLMs) such as ChatGPT and GPT-4. In short, providers must demonstrate that their models are safe and effective.

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CIO Business Intelligence

APRIL 25, 2024

During the summer of 2023, at the height of the first wave of interest in generative AI, LinkedIn began to wonder whether matching candidates with employers and making feeds more useful would be better served with the help of large language models (LLMs).

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Corinium

JUNE 6, 2019

Beyond that, we recommend setting up the appropriate data management and engineering framework including infrastructure, harmonization, governance, toolset strategy, automation, and operating model. It is also important to have a strong test and learn culture to encourage rapid experimentation.

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CIO Business Intelligence

MAY 1, 2024

Gen AI takes us from single-use models of machine learning (ML) to AI tools that promise to be a platform with uses in many areas, but you still need to validate they’re appropriate for the problems you want solved, and that your users know how to use gen AI effectively. Pilots can offer value beyond just experimentation, of course.

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AWS Big Data

SEPTEMBER 5, 2024

In the context of Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG), knowledge retrieval plays a crucial role, because the effectiveness of retrieval directly impacts the maximum potential of large language model (LLM) generation. document-only) ~ 20%(bi-encoder) higher NDCG@10, comparable to the TAS-B dense vector model.

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DataRobot Blog

JANUARY 10, 2023

Most, if not all, machine learning (ML) models in production today were born in notebooks before they were put into production. Data science teams of all sizes need a productive, collaborative method for rapid AI experimentation. Capabilities Beyond Classic Jupyter for End-to-end Experimentation. Auto-scale compute.

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CIO Business Intelligence

AUGUST 15, 2024

A virtual assistant may save employees time when searching for old documents or composing emails, but most organizations have no idea how much time those tasks have taken historically, having never tracked such metrics before, she says. However, foundational models will always have a place as the core backbone for the industry.”

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CIO Business Intelligence

DECEMBER 11, 2024

Research from IDC predicts that we will move from the experimentation phase, the GenAI scramble that we saw in 2023 and 2024, and mature into the adoption phase in 2025/26 before moving into AI-fuelled businesses in 2027 and beyond. Issues around data governance and challenges around clear metrics follow the top challenge areas.

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Cloudera

FEBRUARY 16, 2022

In this example, the Machine Learning (ML) model struggles to differentiate between a chihuahua and a muffin. Will the model correctly determine it is a muffin or get confused and think it is a chihuahua? The extent to which we can predict how the model will classify an image given a change input (e.g. Model Visibility.

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The Unofficial Google Data Science Blog

OCTOBER 7, 2015

by HENNING HOHNHOLD, DEIRDRE O'BRIEN, and DIANE TANG In this post we discuss the challenges in measuring and modeling the long-term effect of ads on user behavior. We describe experiment designs which have proven effective for us and discuss the subtleties of trying to generalize the results via modeling.

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Domino Data Lab

JUNE 23, 2019

Skomoroch proposes that managing ML projects are challenging for organizations because shipping ML projects requires an experimental culture that fundamentally changes how many companies approach building and shipping software. Another pattern that I’ve seen in good PMs is that they’re very metric-driven.

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CIO Business Intelligence

JULY 5, 2024

So, to maximize the ROI of gen AI efforts and investments, it’s important to move from ad-hoc experimentation to a more purposeful strategy and systematic approach to implementation. Define which strategic themes relate to your business model, processes, products, and services. This may impact some of your vendor selections as well.

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datapine

JANUARY 31, 2022

They’re about having the mindset of an experimenter and being willing to let data guide a company’s decision-making process. To do so, the company started by defining the goals, and finding a way to translate employees’ behavior and experience into data, so as to model against actual outcomes.

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DataRobot Blog

MARCH 16, 2023

Why model-driven AI falls short of delivering value Teams that just focus model performance using model-centric and data-centric ML risk missing the big picture business context. We are also thrilled to share the innovations and capabilities that we have developed at DataRobot to meet and exceed those requirements.

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Occam's Razor

SEPTEMBER 30, 2013

Frameworks, because if I can teach someone a new mental model, a different way of thinking, they can be incredibly successful. the company are organized and incentivized (as in what metrics determine their bonus). Make sure your executive dashboards obsess about acquisition, behavior and outcome metrics. So fix that.

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CIO Business Intelligence

JULY 8, 2022

After transforming their organization’s operating model, realigning teams to products rather than to projects , CIOs we consult arrive at an inevitable question: “What next?” Splitting these responsibilities without a clear vision and careful plan, however, can spell disaster, reversing the progress begotten by a new operating model.

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CIO Business Intelligence

DECEMBER 19, 2024

While crucial, if organizations are only monitoring environmental metrics, they are missing critical pieces of a comprehensive environmental, social, and governance (ESG) program and are unable to fully understand their impacts. of survey respondents) and circular economy implementations (40.2%).

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DataRobot Blog

SEPTEMBER 30, 2022

How do you track the integrity of a machine learning model in production? Model Observability can help. By tracking service, drift, prediction data, training data, and custom metrics, you can keep your models and predictions relevant in a fast-changing world. Model Observability Features.

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DataRobot Blog

OCTOBER 18, 2022

Monitoring and Managing AI Projects with Model Observability. Model Observability – the ability to track key health and service metrics for models in production – remains a top priority for AI-enabled organizations. DataRobot Booth at Big Data & AI Toronto 2022.

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CIO Business Intelligence

NOVEMBER 21, 2023

Set parameters and emphasize collaboration To address one root cause of shadow IT, CIOs must also establish a governance and delivery model for evaluating, procuring, and implementing department technology solutions. CIOs need a way to capture lightweight business cases or forecast business value to help prioritize new opportunities.

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IBM Big Data Hub

JUNE 10, 2024

As organizations strive to harness the power of AI while controlling costs, leveraging anything as a service (XaaS) models emerges as a strategic approach. Embracing the power of XaaS XaaS encompasses a broad spectrum of cloud-based and on-premises service models that offer scalable and cost-effective solutions to businesses.

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Sisense

MARCH 6, 2019

Gartner chose to group the rest of the keynote into three main messages according to the following categories: Here are some of the highlights as presented for each of them: Data Driven – “Adopt an Experimental Mindset”. At Sisense we’ve been preaching for BI prototyping and experimentation for quite a while now.

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