The How and Why of Media Optimization

Optimization is a word that gets thrown around a lot in the marketing industry. Conversations with agencies regarding their optimization strategies rarely touch on the methodology and instead chalk these decisions up to the “secret sauce” of the firm. This...

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Bayesian Proportion Example

Description

Part of my job as a Data Scientist is calculating and analyzing test results. A big area of testing is around ad performance for different groups, creative types, or placements. By using the BayesianFirstAid package I can...

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Bayesian Modeling and Prediction for Movies

Description

This is my final project for a Bayesian Statistics course from Coursera. I had to create a bayesian predictive regression model that would predict the audience score of a movie given a host of review metrics.

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Blog Objective

I created this blog as a single source for all my R work (and maybe Python) moving forward. The posts will be for a range of topics, but the majority will be based on things I have created for work....

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Waging WAR: MLB Player Valuation Using Advanced Metrics

Introduction

Baseball players are constantly evaluated on their performance by raw statistics. In recent years, more advanced statistics have identified true value in baseball players while highlight raw statistics that actually contribute wins for the team. Our project leverages...

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