[LA.pm] Tech. Meeting Nov 8th @ Rent.com

[Pablo Velasquez]

Ben, 
This sounds really interesting, I hope you can give a talk. 

-Pablo 

On Sunday 28 October 2007 12:25:10 pm Ben Tilly wrote:
> On 10/28/07, Juan Jose Natera <naterajj at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Announcing LA.pm's next technical meeting!
> >
> > What:
> >
> > Open, but see below
>
> [...]
>
> > We don't have a speaker for this meeting, and thus we are going to
> > try something different.  We have 2 hours for speaking of Perl related
> > subjects and we're going to start with:
>
> [...]
>
> > The rest of the time (70 minutes) is available for other speakers, all
> > you have to do is send a reply to this email saying what will you be
> > talking about and for how long, until we run out of time. If nobody
> > else offers to speak then we will have a short meeting.
>
> I don't have anything prepared, but I've helped on A/B testing at
> multiple companies, including Rent.  Would the ins and outs of how to
> do A/B testing be useful to people?
>
> For those who don't know, A/B testing is when you develop two versions
> of the same page and show one to some people and the other to the
> rest.  Then track how those groups do.  When you're convinced that one
> group does better than the other, you cut off the test.
>
> The key problem is how to tell whether one group is really doing
> better, or whether you are looking at a random fluctuation.
>
> Ben
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