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A detailed guide to one of the most popular causal inference techniques in the industryCover, image by AuthorIt is now widely accepted that the gold standard technique to compute the causal effect of a treatment (a drug, ad, product, …) on an outcome of interest (a disease, firm revenue, customer satisfaction, …) is AB testing, a.k.a. randomized experiments. We randomly split a set of subjects (patients, users, customers, …) into a treatment and a control group and give the treatment to the treatment group. This procedure…

Idiomatic ways to use Python as OOPPhoto by Nina Mercado on UnsplashAt its core, Python is an object-oriented programming (OOP) language, which builds its features around objects. A string is an object, an instance of a custom class is an object, and so is a class, module, and even package. One long-term principle in OOP coding is encapsulation — the design pattern where you expose the functionalities that the users need while hiding the implementation details and those that the users don’t need to have access to.For any…

Appropriate data sampling methods matter for training a good modelPhoto by Testalize.me on UnsplashData sampling in model training is an overlooked area in machine learning. Machine learning has two sides: modeling and data. Both of them are equally important and should be considered carefully in a real-life machine learning project. However, many textbooks, papers, blogs talk about the modeling side, only few of them talk about the data side.We use ‘data’ instead of ‘dataset’ here because their concepts are different:…

YouTube says it will remove content that offers instructions on unsafe abortion methods, as well as false claims about abortion safety. Such content violates the platform's medical misinformation policies. YouTube says it will start taking down those videos today and ramp up its efforts in the coming weeks. Additionally, YouTube is adding an information panel under abortion-related videos and above associated search results. The panel includes context and information from local and global health authorities, the service…

It’s commonly accepted that some marketers hate “process” and that great ideas can’t conform to rigid timelines, workflows, or structures. However, when marketers report spending only 26% of their workweek on the actual marketing job, the way that marketers work needs to change. Join experts from Adobe and learn how to make sure your marketing work is strategically aligned so that you can transform how work gets accomplished. Register today for “4 Proven Methods to Maximize…

A practical guide(image by author)Set is one of the 4 built-in data structures in Python. The other ones are dictionary, list, and tuple.According to the official documentation, a set is an unordered collection of distinct hashable objects. Thus, two characteristic features of sets are:They do not contain duplicate elementsThe elements must be hashable (i.e. immutable). Although sets are mutable, the elements in a set are immutable.In this article, we will go over 4 must-know methods for comparing sets. Let’s start with…

Steps That Will Ultimately Help You Improve the Health of Your DataPhoto by Markus Spiske on UnsplashRecently, I have been asked the question: what is even more important than the data quality? And I realised I might be providing an incomplete narrative in my Data Quality (DQ) blogs.DQ is undoubtedly an essential aspect of data; however, there are many more facets than simply improving its quality. And merely improving the data quality will not give you all the benefits. I have distilled these down to five things we ought…

A digital driver's licence is a very secure copy of your physical driver's licence that can be saved on your smartphone. It is a supplement to the actual card rather than a replacement for it. Your e-driver's licence is just as legitimate as your physical driving licence. The Parivahan Sewa website, the Digilocker website, and the mobile app can all be used to download your driver's licence online. By following the step-by-step instructions provided here, you can download your digital driver's licence using any of these…

All of your official documents can be saved in your Digilocker and can be downloaded as needed. It also makes it easier to use all government services, including ration card, driving license, COVID vaccination certificate, and PAN cards, among others. Digilocker offers uploading space of up to 1 GB. All of your official documents can be saved in your Digilocker and can be downloaded as needed. It also makes it easier to use all government services, including ration card, driving license, COVID vaccination certificate,…

Over time, your iPhone's contact list can get rather extensive. Before you know it, you're scrolling through a multitude of people you never call or text. The list gets even longer when you add other accounts to the device, like Gmail, Yahoo, and Outlook. We show you how to delete contacts on an iPhone. Removing a single contact is easy, but ridding yourself of multiple contacts requires a trip online. Delete a single contactIf you need to delete one or two contacts, this is the best way. Using this method means…