Tag: Metrics

How to Size For Online Experiments With Ratio Metrics

Expedia Group™, as a global online travel solution provider, heavily relies on A/B testing to continuously bring the best travel experience to our consumers and business partners. We at the Experimentation Science & Statistics team keep exploring new methodologies and techniques ...

How to Apply Metrics for Inclusion to your Open Source Project

The first part of the answer, is to remember that open and inclusion cannot be decoupled. Historically, we believed that by being open we were by default inclusive — but we now know that’s not true. This means is that the most achievable goals for inclusi...

Advocate for Equity with Daisy Mayorga??? Muse and Metrics, S5E4 Episode

This episode features guest Daisy Mayorga. Daisy is a passionate technologist and new co-founder of yüda, a company dedicated to Empowering Equity in Emerging Technologies. She holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Computer Science and experience as a Google Developer Group organizer and Women ...

Investment Metrics for Climate Change, Part 2: CO2 Is Our Top Priority

Climate change is visible everywhere you look. Glaciers are melting at an unprecedented rate, as those pictures from the 1930s and the 2020s show. Farmers all over the world need to cope with more frequent and more severe drought, even in moderate climates such as Switzerland. Eve...

Exposing Python Metrics with Prometheus

Prometheus is a powerful monitoring and alerting system that collects and stores time-series data. In this step-by-step guide, we will demonstrate how to expose metrics for a simple Python API app and monitor them using Prometheus. We will also instrument the app to track request metrics. To make it...

I Have Some Good News and Bad News for Your Cloud Metrics

If you’ve ever partnered with AWS when building an application you know that you go through an Infrastructure Event Management (IEM) plan in the weeks leading up to your go-live event. Part of the IEM is walking through all aspects of your application with key personnel from your com...

How to Use Metrics Wisely, Instead of Letting Them Manipulate You

Except for the Friday I drove myself to the hospital for an emergency appendectomy, I never missed a day of work for 25 years. And I don’t even count that as a missed day because I only left work at lunchtime. It was just my luck my appendix waited until Friday afternoon, and I was back to ...

Talent Metrics Maturity Framework

While there is a lot of focus on enabling Machine Learning adoption in Talent Operations — a key pre-requisite for ML model creation is the availability of relevant data and a clear understanding of what metrics need to be tracked. Without the relevant metrics in place, any ML initiative is go...