Product Case Study – Insights
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Learn how to develop product sense, create metrics, and design robust A/B tests
Some companies that approved this course as a professional development expense
Learn what was the data-driven hypothesis behind FB stories, Netflix free trial, Youtube Premium, etc.
When to use average-based vs threshold-based metrics? How to identify those thresholds in metrics such as percentage of users with 7 friends in 10 days?
How to evaluate changes that positively affect some key metrics, but negatively affect others? Which strategy to use to decide whether a product change is good or not in those cases?
How to design statistically sound A/B tests? How to choose test traffic percentage? How to deal with novelty effect, connected users, randomization bugs, or other typical issues in tech A/B tests?
How to deal with actual tech data, such as sudden spikes or drops, bugs, unbalanced metrics, non-random missing data, A/B test results, conversion data, etc.
How to use machine learning to fight frauds, build data products, or develop product insights? How to evaluate the impact of new machine learning models into production?
Bahar Bazargan – got a job as a Data Scientist @ Facebook – US
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When to choose a logistic regression, how to interpret it, and how to use its output to come up with product ideas
How to estimate for how many days you should run an A/B test, from both a statistical and business perspective
How to understand if a test is affected by novelty effect and how to deal with it in practice
The crucial step of making sure that test and control are properly randomized
How to pick a metric for ads, identify the best performing ones, and analyze trends
Kenny Tang – Data Scientist @ SmarTone Telecom Lim – Hong Kong
You will learn real product data science
12 sections with more than 130 lessons and exercises in total
Real tech company tables, i.e. user table, event table, A/B test tables, etc.
Learn what was the data-driven hypothesis behind FB stories, Netflix free trial, Youtube Premium, etc.
18 case studies on how to design actionable metrics, understand what drives them, and figure out how to improve them via new product features
In depth practical exercise on how to use machine learning to build a data product personalized at the user level. This is the framework used to optimize almost all data products
Almost all tech company data have unbalanced classes, e.g. fraud, ad clicks, conversation rate, email clicks, etc. These exercises explain how to deal with that
Most of missing data in tech are non-random, i.e. users choose to not provide certain information about themselves. These lessons explain how to deal with biased missing data, including Uber and Airbnb case studies
Fraud is one of the most common data science applications. These case studies explain how to set up the problem from a ML standpoint as well the how to build a product around it
A series of lessons covering all that’s needed to know about A/B testing. Includes statistical inference theory as well as very practical tech problems (novelty effect, randomization, sample size, testing by market, etc.)
12 case studies describing how top tech companies design their A/B tests. They focus on the most common issues tech companies face, like how to test in social networks or marketplaces, how to estimate long term effects, when A/B tests fail, etc.
A new list of product case studies. They focus on trade-offs when evaluating multiple metrics at the same time (e.g. what to do if after a test some key metrics are up and some down) as well as explaining the thought process behind using data to choose whether testing a totally new product
This is a collection of company write-ups, tutorials, and blog posts. Includes Airbnb, FB, Linkedin, Google, Netflix and many more other companies describing how they design A/B tests and use DS to drive product development
They come from the “Collection of data science takehome challenges” book. They touch all the topics taught in the course. All challenges come with full solution in R and Python
Teaches a reusable framework to solve coding exercises in SQL, R, and Python. Includes exercises about metrics, data processing, aggregate statistics as well as probability exercises
Yes, the course perfectly fits most employee training requirements. Approval process at most companies has been straightforward.
This course has been approved by managers at >200 companies of different sizes (from FAANG to 20-people start-ups), industries (tech, banks, consulting, healthcare), and locations (North America, Asia, Europe).
If you need any help to facilitate the reimbursement process, need help in matching course content to your current work tasks, or want to see a sample of the invoice you could receive after getting the course, please get in touch.
Doudou Tang – Data Scientist @ Booking.com – UK
I have been creating educational material related to data science since 2015. Firstly focusing on job interviews (A Collection of Data Science Take-Home Challenges, 40 Data Science Product Questions, DS Coding Course) and, more recently, focusing on employee training (Full Course in Product Data Science and Chatgpt for Data Scientists).
The Full Course in Product Data Science was among the fastest courses ever to reach $1 million in sales on Teachable. The main idea behind it is to simulate the actual work data scientists do in top tech companies.
In 2023, I built and sold a Chatgpt app to Colgate. Based on that experience, I created a Chatgpt for Data Scientists course to help data scientists build and monetize AI apps, and built the DataScienceGPT app.
Prior to all this, I worked as a data scientist for several Silicon Valley tech companies, the last one being Airbnb.
Yes, definitely. Can provide certificate, invoice, or anything else you need.
Yes, all those challenges and product questions are here too. However, this course includes much more.
Its main focus is on teaching product data science via a combination of theoretical lessons and practical examples. The challenges then come at the end to make sure things were learned properly.
Also, the course includes many new product questions, like for instance the first one in the samples above, as well as all the challenges have a solution, not just 4. Here is the full curriculum.
Frankly speaking, most data science courses are not particularly useful because they have little/nothing to do with what data scientists actually do at work.
Firstly, data scientists don’t spend their time over-tuning a fancy model to marginally improve its performance. In fact, most of data science work is about looking at the data to come up with product ideas and properly designing A/B tests.
And the few applied courses tend to be so simple to the point of being highly unrealistic. I.e., most A/B test courses will teach you to randomly split users, run the two versions of the site, and check the results. But that strategy almost never works for several reasons (test and control would never be independent in social networks or marketplaces, can’t estimate novelty effect, etc.).
This course will teach you how product data science is actually done at top tech companies. The course uses data that look exactly like tech company tables (including wrong entries, non-random missing values, A/B tests, etc.). And then actual data science projects are built on top of those data.
For any additional questions, please email info@datamasked.com