Ron Kohavi's Talks

Talks in reverse chronological order
  1. Ron Kohavi, Trustworthy Online Controlled Experiments and the Risks of Uncontrolled Observational Studies, KDD 2019 Causal Discovery workshop invited talk.
  2. Ron Kohavi, Performance: Each 0.1 Second Is Worth $18M For Bing, Convex online conference invited talk 8/5/2019.
  3. Ron Kohavi, Trustworthy Online Controlled Experiments at Large Scale, Decisions Conference 2018. Recording.
  4. Ron Kohavi, Best Refuted Causal Claims from Observational Studies, MIT Code 2018 invited talk.
  5. Ron Kohavi, Metric Pitfalls in Online Controlled Experiments, MIT Code 2017 invited talk.
  6. Ron Kohavi, Pitfalls in Online Controlled Experiments, MIT Code 2016 invited talk. 20 minutes video.
  7. Ron Kohavi, Intuition Busters, Microsoft recorded talk 2/16/2016.
  8. Ron Kohavi, Challenging Problems in Online Controlled Experiments, MIT Code 2015 invited talk.
  9. Ron Kohavi, Online Controlled Experiments: Lessons from Running A/B/n Tests for 12 years KDD 2015 Keynote.
  10. Ron Kohavi, Lessons from Running Thousands of A/B Tests, MIT Code 2014 invited talk.
  11. Ron Kohavi, Online Controlled Experiments: Introduction, Learnings, and Humbling Statistics, Qcon conference (11/11/2013) (Video).
  12. Ron Kohavi, Online Controlled Experiments: Introduction, Learnings, and Humbling Statistics, ACM Recommender Systems industry keynote, Sept 2012 (Powerpoint PPTX).
  13. Ron Kohavi, Online Controlled Experiments: Listening to the Customers, not to the HiPPO (PPTX) (video), SD Forum's Analytics Revolution, April 2010.
  14. Ron Kohavi and Roger Longbotham, Top 7 Testing Pitfalls (audio), Which Test Won, Nov 18, 2009.
  15. Ron Kohavi, Online Experimentation at Microsoft (PPTX), talk at Seattle Tech Startup, Sept 2009.
  16. Ron Kohavi, Roger Longbotham, John Quarto-vonTivadar, Planning, Running, and Analyzing Controlled Experiments on the Web (part1) (part2) (part3), KDD 2009 Tutorial.
  17. Ron Kohavi, Practical Guide to Controlled Experiments (video), talk at CIKM 2008: ACM 17th Conference on Information and Knowledge management.
  18. Ron Kohavi, Practical Guide to Controlled Experiments on the Web, talk at eMetrics Marketing Optimization Summit 2007.
  19. Ron Kohavi, Focus the Mining Beacon: Lessons and Challenges from the World of E-Commerce , ACM first S.F. Data Mining SIG talk, June 14, 2006.
  20. Ron Kohavi, Focus the Mining Beacon: Lessons and Challenges from the World of E-Commerce , keynote at PKDD/ECML 2005.
  21. Ron Kohavi, Front Line Internet Analytics at Amazon.com, talk at eMetrics 2004, June 2004.
  22. Ron Kohavi, Real-world Insights from Mining Retail E-Commerce Data (PPT), talk at Stanford's CSLI's Seminar on Computational Learning and Adaptation on, May 22, 2003.
  23. Ron Kohavi, Deriving Key Insights from Blue Martini Business Intelligence: Summary of key insights from using Business Intelligence against Debenhams and MEC sites (PPT). Approved by Debenhams and MEC. Presented at Webinar on March 10, 2003.
  24. Ron Kohavi, Mining Customer Data, Etail CRM Summit, 2002.; The talk was cited in ComputerWorld.
  25. Ron Kohavi, Mining E-commerce Data, the Good, the Bad, and the Ugly (slides), invited paper/talk at KDD 2001's industrial track: Proceedings of the seventh ACM SIGKDD international conference on Knowledge discovery and data mining, p. 8-13, 2001 . DOI.
  26. Ron Kohavi, Mining E-commerce Data, the Good, the Bad, and the Ugly, invited talk at PAKDD 2001, April 16-18, 2001, Hong Kong.
    Coverage in the South China Morning Press, the largest English newspaper in Hong Kong.
  27. Ron Kohavi, An Ideal E-Commerce Architecture for Building Web Sites Supporting Analysis and Personalization, invited talk at the Information Architecture and Web Site Design class, Berkeley, Oct 2000.
  28. Ron Kohavi, Mining E-Commerce Data: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly, Invited talk at SAS's M2000 Data Mining Technology conference, Oct 2000.
  29. Ron Kohavi, Data Mining and Visualization, invited talk at the National Academy of Engineering US Frontiers of Engineers, Sept 2000. Available in book form Frontiers of Engineering: Reports on Leading-Edge Engineering From the 2000 NAE Symposium on Frontiers of Engineering.
  30. Ron Kohavi, Personalization Panel, in KDD-2000, Sixth ACM SIGKDD International Conference on Knowledge Discovery & Data Mining, Personalization and Data Mining Panel: Exploring the Synergies, Aug 2000.
  31. Ron Kohavi and Carla Brodley, KDD-CUP 2000: Peeling the Onion (slides), KDD-2000, Sixth ACM SIGKDD International Conference on Knowledge Discovery & Data Mining. KDD-Cup 2000 Organizers' Report: Peeling the Onion appeared in SIGKDD Explorations Volume 2, issue 2, p. 86-93, 2000. DOI.
  32. Ron Kohavi, Mining E-Commerce Data: Challenges and Stories from the Trenches (slides) and (HTML slides), DIMACS/IBM Workshop on Data Mining in the Internet Age, 2 May 2000.
  33. Ron Kohavi, Embedding Data Mining Technology in E-Commerce Applications (slides), invited talk at ICML-99 industrial day. June 99, Slovenia.

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