On Mon, Aug 31, 2015 at 11:05 AM, Mikhail Popov wrote:
> Evan Miller, How Not To Run An A/B Test
If you guys ever want me to get Evan to come talk to us just let know.
We both worked at A9 together.
He's a fun guy.
--tomasz
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Well, peeking is okay as long as you don't act on it:
“Peeking” at the data is OK as long as you can restrain yourself from
> stopping an experiment before it has run its course. I know this goes
> against something in human nature, so perhaps the best advice is: no
> peeking!
It does take up ti
We will, of course, continue to sanity-check the data within a day or so
after a new test starts to run, to make sure that we are logging the
information that we will need to perform analyses, that our bucket sizes
appear to working as designed, etc.
Kevin Smith
Agile Coach, Wikimedia Foundation
Just as an FYI, next Thursday the Discovery's UX sub-team will start having
weekly meetings, to groom the backlog and plan work for the week.
For now, these will include Moiz and Dan, with Tomasz and Wes optional. As
additional UX folks are hired, we'll add them, and we will also consider
bringing
Cross-posting from wikitech-l. Please reply there.
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From: Dan Garry
Date: 1 September 2015 at 20:43
Subject: Discovery Department A/B testing an alternative to prefix search
next week
To: Wikimedia developers
Hi everyone,
*tl;dr: Discovery Department to
