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Suppose there exists a new airline named Jetco that flies domestically across North America. Jetco recently had a study commissioned that tested the boarding time of every airline, and it came out that Jetco had the fastest average boarding times of any airline.

What factors could have biased this result, and what would you look into?

What could potentially bias the average boarding time in favor of an airline that only flies domestically?

What could potentially bias the average boarding time in favor of an airline that only flies domestically?

Boarding Times Bias

A new airline came out as the fastest average boarding times compared to other airlines.  What factors could have biased this result and what would you look into?

Let’s say that your company is running a standard control and variant AB test on a feature to increase conversion rates on the landing page. The PM checks the results and finds a .04 p-value.

How would you assess the validity of the result?

Experiment Validity

Let’s say we have a table with an <code>id</code> and <code>name</code> fields. The table holds over 100 million rows and we want to sample a random row in the table without throttling the database.

Write a query to randomly sample a row from this table.

Input:

<code>big_table</code> table

<table>
<thead>
<tr>
<th>Columns</th>
<th>Type</th>
</tr>
</thead>

<tbody>
<tr>
<td><code>id</code></td>
<td>INTEGER</td>
</tr>

<tr>
<td><code>name</code></td>
<td>VARCHAR</td>
</tr>
</tbody>
</table>

Write a query to randomly sample a row from a big table.

Random SQL Sample

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Data Engineer Location US-OH-Dayton ID 2024-3476 Category Process Management / Liaison / Program Support Position Type Full Time Salary Riverside Overview Riverside Research is an independent National Security Nonprofit dedicated to research and development in the national interest. We provide high-end technical services, research and development, and prototype solutions to some of the country's most challenging technical problems. All Riverside Research opportunities require U.S. Citizenship. Position Overview Serves as a data engineer leading the National Air and Space Intelligence Center (NASIC) toward a structured and open data exchange achieving the ability to use, share and perform data analysis across multiple organizations to help answer mission and business intelligence questions. Manages and prioritizes the project stream, working with internal customers to determine project definition and business requirements. Responsibilities <ul> Serve as the Data Engineering expert. Utilize technical expertise to plan, design, document, and implement requirements necessary for enterprise data engineering. <li>Work as an analytical advisor to A9A leadership to include the Principal Technical Analyst, Deputy Chief Data Officer, and Chief Data Officer on a broad range of issues related to Center needs for data engineering and data analytics. </li> <li>Share your expertise. Guide other civilian, military, and contractor counterparts in developing and providing Center level data standardization and structure. </li> <li>Develop new approaches, methods, tools, automation, and procedures to improve Center data preparation, organization, and architecture. </li> <li>Manage projects from inception to implementation. Collaborate with communities of experts and lead team members to drive enterprise achievement. </li> </ul>Qualifications<ul> <li>Current Top-Secret clearance with SCI adjudication </li> <li>8+ years of experience in technical project management or data engineering experience </li> <li>Bachelor's degree in information science, computer science, engineering, mathematics, or a related technical field </li> <li>Demonstrated Experience with Tableau Visualizations/Data Prep, data capabilities of SharePoint </li> <li>Demonstrated experience with Business Analytics and the principals of analyzing financial, production, and/or Intel data </li> <li>Effective/efficient written/verbal communication skills; proficient in MS Word, PowerPoint </li> <li>Self-motivated, detail oriented, responsible team player able to work independently with minimal daily direction </li> <li>Ability to work and interact with technically and organizationally diverse personnel </li> <li>Open to occasional travel </li> <li>Self-motivated, independent, detail oriented, responsible team player </li></ul> Desired Qualifications: <ul> <li>Familiarity with National Air and Space Intelligence Center (NASIC) intelligence analysis and production processes </li> <li>Data Visualization <ul> <li>Tableau Desktop & Server -- (preferred) </li> <li>Power BI </li></ul> </li> <li>Data Collection and Standards <ul> <li>Advanced Excel calculations </li> <li>Data access controls </li></ul> </li> <li>Tools <ul> <li>Tableau Desktop </li> <li>Tableau Prep </li> <li>Excel </li> <li>Power Apps </li> <li>Power Automate </li> <li>SharePoint </li></ul> </li> </ul> Global Comp $91,000 - $140,000 This represents the typical compensation range for this position based on experience, location and other factors. Closing Statement Riverside Research Institute is a not-for-profit, technology-oriented defense company, where service to our customers and support of our staff is our overall mission. Riverside is an affirmative action-equal opportunity employer and complies with all applicable federal, state, and local laws regarding recruitment and hiring. Riverside offers comprehensive compensation and benefit packages to our employees. Riverside bases its employment decisions solely on technical experience, qualifications and other job-related criteria related to our organizational purpose as a not-for-profit company, and without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex marital status, sexual orientation, national origin, physical or mental disability, veteran's status or any other status legally protected by applicable federal, state, and local law.

GEOINT Data Scientist Location US-OH-Dayton ID 2024-3456 Category Intelligence Analysis / Geospatial Analysis Position Type Full Time Salary Riverside Overview Riverside Research is an independent National Security Nonprofit dedicated to research and development in the national interest. We provide high-end technical services, research and development, and prototype solutions to some of the country's most challenging technical problems. All Riverside Research opportunities require U.S. Citizenship. Position Overview Riverside Research's Intelligence and Defense Solutions business unit is seeking a GEOINT Data Scientist for an opportunity at Wright-Patterson AFB supporting the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA). Responsibilities include analyzing and reverse engineering GEOINT data collects, sensor processing applications, as well as their derivative products. This position will also support the assessment of new analytical tools as the necessary standards to facilitate compatibility and greater efficiencies across the tool sets utilized by imagery/geospatial analysts. Responsibilities <ul> Work with minimal guidance and be fully capable of meeting most analytic methodology services without direction <li>Provide GEOINT remote sensing data analytical techniques and assess the application of new techniques to current workflows </li> <li>Perform data collection, performance, technical analysis and technical evaluations of GEOINT data and experimental processing algorithms </li> <li>Investigate processing challenges and aid in the design of improved processing solutions for GEOINT analysts </li> <li>Document and present refined GEOINT tradecraft in the analysis of unique datasets </li> <li>Provide Subject Matter Expertise to project team members and the analytical cadre </li> <li>Interact with analysts, mission partners and others on analytical functionality and exploitation and related support tools </li> <li>Provide database consultation, graphical data visualizations, and recommendations for quantitative data selection, intelligence collection & integration </li> <li>Other duties as assigned </li> </ul> Qualifications Required Qualifications: <ul> <li>Top Secret clearance with SCI adjudication </li> <li>Master's in physics. mathematics, engineering, physical science, computer science or equivalent experience </li> <li>8+ years' experience in technical GEOINT processing and analysis </li> <li>Experience with experimental frameworks to collect and analyze data </li> <li>Experience creating reports, Data Visual Aides, and project presentations </li> <li>Experience working in a high ops temp environment </li> <li>Propensity to dig into problems in the pursuit of determining root-cause </li> <li>Self-motivated, detail-oriented, responsible team player able to work independently with minimal daily direction; effective/efficient written/verbal communication skills </li></ul> Desired Qualifications <ul> <li>Experience coordinating with DoD and IC </li> <li>Experience in the development of automation strategies for data collection </li> <li>Experience with Full Motion Video analysis </li> <li>Experience with Systems Tool Kit (STK) </li> <li>Experience with data engineering and curation </li> <li>Familiar with Python scripting </li> <li>Intelligence production experience </li> </ul> Global Comp $95,000 - $140,000 This represents the typical compensation range for this position based on experience, location and other factors. Closing Statement Riverside Research Institute is a not-for-profit, technology-oriented defense company, where service to our customers and support of our staff is our overall mission. Riverside is an affirmative action-equal opportunity employer and complies with all applicable federal, state, and local laws regarding recruitment and hiring. Riverside offers comprehensive compensation and benefit packages to our employees. Riverside bases its employment decisions solely on technical experience, qualifications and other job-related criteria related to our organizational purpose as a not-for-profit company, and without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex marital status, sexual orientation, national origin, physical or mental disability, veteran's status or any other status legally protected by applicable federal, state, and local law.

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