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Online Controlled Experiments (OCE) are the gold standard to measure impact and guide decisions for digital products and services. Despite many methodological advances in this area, the scarcity of public datasets and the lack of a systematic review and categorization hinder its development. We present the first survey and taxonomy for OCE datasets, which highlight the lack of a public dataset to support the design and running of experiments with adaptive stopping, an increasingly popular approach to enable quickly deploying improvements or rolling back degrading changes. We release the first such dataset, containing daily checkpoints of decision metrics from multiple, real experiments run on a global e-commerce platform. The dataset design is guided by a broader discussion on data requirements for common statistical tests used in digital experimentation. We demonstrate how to use the dataset in the adaptive stopping scenario using sequential and Bayesian hypothesis tests and learn the relevant parameters for each approach., 35th Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS 2021) Track on Datasets and Benchmarks. 17 pages, 2 figures, 2 tables. Dataset available on Open Science Framework: https://osf.io/64jsb/

The objective of this study was to determine the effects of liver abscess severity in beef cattle at slaughter on meat tenderness and sensory attributes of steaks from USDA Low Choice and Select quality grades. Liver abscesses at the time of slaughter have been shown to decrease hot carcass weight, dressing percentage, yield grade, and marbling scores. However, little research has focused on the effects of animal health and disease parameters, including liver abscesses, on meat tenderness and sensory attributes., American Association of Bovine Practitioners Proceedings of the Annual Conference, 2017

Veterinary graduates (n=489) from 39 universities across 4 continents participated in a survey to evaluate veterinary training of clinical skills and the monetary value of education for recent graduates. The objectives of this study were to conduct a survey of veterinarians and current veterinary students regarding the exposure to or ability to perform certain clinical skills during veterinary school that are important to beef cattle veterinary practice. Another objective was to survey veterinary practitioners regarding their willingness to pay a new graduate more if the new veterinarian could perform these skills on their first day of practice. Participants answered 111 questions in a web based survey system on their exposure to clinical skills and production concepts while veterinary students, and the value of these skills to new graduates. Eighty-four percent of surveyed veterinarians had adequate or excellent exposure to the calving process and knowledge of when to intervene while in veterinary school, but only 65% had adequate or excellent exposure to caesarian section utilizing a flank approach. Most surveyed veterinarians indicated that they would be willing to pay new graduates more if they entered the practice with competency in the surveyed clinical skills., The Bovine Practitioner, Vol. 51, No. 2 (2017 Summer)