Occam's Razor

JUNE 6, 2011

So in addition to becoming good at Omniture, Google Analytics, Baidu Analytics , pick one other tool from the Experimentation, Voice of Customer, Competitive Intelligence buckets of Web Analytics 2.0. But if you don't have any exposure to Statistics then I strongly encourage taking an evening / part time course in Statistics 101.

Analytics 126

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Octopai

OCTOBER 26, 2022

When DataOps principles are implemented within an organization, you see an increase in collaboration, experimentation, deployment speed and data quality. Continuous pipeline monitoring with SPC (statistical process control). What DataOps best practices put you on track to achieving this ideal? Let’s take a look. Results (i.e.

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Occam's Razor

JUNE 6, 2007

I am thrilled to say that my book Web Analytics: An Hour A Day has been published and is now widely available. Experimentation & Testing (A/B, Multivariate, you name it). Thrilled is perhaps understating it, I am giddy like a schoolgirl. There I said it. All the hard work seems to be worth it when I hold my third child in my hands.

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Insight

APRIL 28, 2020

You’ll often see the name “data challenge” used when the take-home assignment involves machine learning or statistics or “coding challenge” when the focus is on evaluating a candidate’s software engineering skills. Length: Highly Variable.

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Cloudera

NOVEMBER 25, 2020

How can he make it easy to see statistics, and do calculations, on discovered commonalities, across structured and unstructured data? A quick and easy way to publish results to others, to accelerate results through active collaboration, even across organizational borders.

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Occam's Razor

FEBRUARY 7, 2022

Since you're reading a blog on advanced analytics, I'm going to assume that you have been exposed to the magical and amazing awesomeness of experimentation and testing. And yet, chances are you really don’t know anyone directly who uses experimentation as a part of their regular business practice. Wah wah wah waaah.

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The Unofficial Google Data Science Blog

OCTOBER 12, 2017

1]" Statistics, as a discipline, was largely developed in a small data world. More people than ever are using statistical analysis packages and dashboards, explicitly or more often implicitly, to develop and test hypotheses. Data was expensive to gather, and therefore decisions to collect data were generally well-considered.

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The Unofficial Google Data Science Blog

APRIL 16, 2019

by MICHAEL FORTE Large-scale live experimentation is a big part of online product development. In fact, this blog has published posts on this very topic. This means a small and growing product has to use experimentation differently and very carefully. This blog post is about experimentation in this regime.

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Occam's Razor

JANUARY 9, 2012

Lack of loyalty shows simply re-publishing AP stories is useless. AND you can have analysis of your risk in almost real time to get an early read and in a few days with statistical significance! Allocate some of your aforementioned 15% budget to experimentation and testing. We expect more.

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Domino Data Lab

MAY 8, 2019

So much work in machine learning – either on the academic side which is focused on publishing papers or the industry side which is focused on ROI – tends to emphasize: How much predictive power (precision, recall) does the model have? Use of influence functions goes back to the 1970s in robust statistics.

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CIO Business Intelligence

DECEMBER 6, 2023

But these Guardian polls appear to have been published on Microsoft properties with millions of visitors by automated systems with no human approval required. But ultimately, this is about building a culture where generative AI is seen as a useful tool that still needs to be verified, not a replacement for human creativity or judgement.

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Insight

MARCH 12, 2020

There was only one problem: literary agents, the gatekeepers of the publishing industry, kept rejecting the book?—?often Galbraith eventually opted to publish Cuckoo’s Calling through an acquaintance of sorts. but the publishing industry failed to see it. often without even looking at it. In other words, Galbraith had chops?—?but

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CIO Business Intelligence

MAY 6, 2025

Predictive analytics: Turning insight into foresight Predictive analytics uses historical data and statistical models or machine learning algorithms to answer the question, What is likely to happen? These capabilities are no longer theoretical or experimental. This article is published as part of the Foundry Expert Contributor Network.

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