Google Research AI blog

MAY 26, 2023

Posted by Ken Caluwaerts and Atil Iscen, Research Scientists, Google Creating robots that exhibit robust and dynamic locomotion capabilities, similar to animals or humans, has been a long-standing goal in the robotics community. Researchers at Google have been pursuing agility for multiple years and across various form factors.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 26, 2010

One problem is that many do not formulate a measurement strategy and are at a loss to justify their investment of time and resources or reap insights to improve what they're doing. . The report presents a framework for measuring social media effectiveness against those business results and presents standardized metrics.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 4, 2013

Note from Beth: You need a identify a measurable goal for your integrated social media strategy that can be linked to your organization’s overall results and pick a data point or KPI that you will collect along the way to measure success. Flickr Photo by Kevlar. By: Rebecca Shore.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 6, 2012

Last week, I wrote a post that summarized some tips, resources, and tools for using Pinterest. I took a look at a couple of the measurement tools available for Pinterest and got on the waiting list for Pinerly after reading this analysis from the Poynter Blog based on stats provided by Pinerly. Followers: Gives a measure of reach.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 19, 2011

We’ve been chatting about how to measure the impact of the crowd and she offered to write this guest post on the topic. Measuring Your Crowdsourcing Efforts by Aliza Sherman. In order to know how to measure crowdsourcing results, you first need to understand what kind of crowdsourcing you’re implementing. Measuring Work.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 15, 2011

Malaise is a feeling of general discomfort or uneasiness, of being “out of sorts.&# Lately, I’ve been hearing about “measurement malaise&# infecting nonprofits and not just social media measurement. Idealware Study. Respondents that names tools were labled as “substantial.’

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 27, 2013

March is not only great for basketball, but is also good for nonprofit research studies about digital strategies and launches of new data tools. So if you like looking at and thinking about data and love to get your hands dirty with a data jujitsu, here’s a couple of goodies for you. RESEARCH STUDIES. … Read More

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Google Research AI blog

FEBRUARY 10, 2023

Posted by Vahab Mirrokni, VP and Google Fellow, Google Research (This is Part 5 in our series of posts covering different topical areas of research at Google. Google Research has been at the forefront of this effort, developing many innovations from privacy-safe recommendation systems to scalable solutions for large-scale ML.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 4, 2011

Part of my work as Visiting Scholar at the David and Lucile Packard Foundation is facilitating several peer learning groups on social media measurement. The intent is to help grantees improve their social media practice through measurement and learning. What social media measurement pilot can best help move your practice forward?

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InfoWorld

JULY 2, 2024

AI research is hurtling forward, but our ability to assess its capabilities and potential risks appears to be lagging behind. To address this, today we're introducing a new initiative to fund evaluations developed by third-party organizations that can effectively measure advanced capabilities in AI models.”

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Care2

JUNE 21, 2013

Next Thursday, we''re holding a webinar that will dive into the key findings from the 2013 Blackbaud Online Marketing Benchmark Study – to indicate where your organization''s performance stacks up in relation to your peers, as well as what you can be doing better to speed your journey to online success. How Do You Measure Up?

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

NOVEMBER 7, 2019

Nonprofits quickly receive the data insights they need to track and measure success through the new Report Center. Now in its fourth edition, this year’s report provides technology benchmarks for Africa, Asia, Australia and New Zealand, Europe, Latin America and the Caribbean, and the United States and Canada.

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Google Research AI blog

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

Posted by Sanjiv Kumar, VP and Google Fellow, Google Research (This is Part 4 in our series of posts covering different topical areas of research at Google. On a deep autoencoder benchmark, LocoProp achieves performance comparable to that of higher-order optimizers while being significantly faster.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 30, 2012

For me, what was most exciting was the group discussion about after reporting on the experiment about to how to design and measure the next experiment with a promoted post. Use promoted posts to accelerate the engagement of good quality content that you know from previous measurement insights performs well. Do a content audit.

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The Verge

SEPTEMBER 16, 2021

Cardiologists are looking forward to the future of blood pressure tech — but the field still needs to catch up It’s been over two years since Samsung first announced that its Galaxy Watch would be able to measure people’s blood pressure. Blood pressure measurement is something we need to do a lot more a lot of,” she says.

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Google Research AI blog

JANUARY 18, 2023

Posted by Jeff Dean, Senior Fellow and SVP of Google Research, on behalf of the Google Research community Today we kick off a series of blog posts about exciting new developments from Google Research. Please keep your eye on this space and look for the title “Google Research, 2022 & Beyond” for more articles in the series.

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The Next Web

NOVEMBER 25, 2013

While startup CEOs measure key metrics to keep tabs on how well their business is doing, it can be hard for them to know exactly what counts as a good figure or a bad figure. Compass builds upon the benchmarking that was previously available to contributors to Startup Genome. How are they faring against their peers?

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JULY 5, 2020

Video engagement on social media is the measurable action that viewers take after watching. We studied 778 nonprofit organizations’ video posts on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram from January 1, 2019 – December 31, 2019 to establish benchmarks, identify trends, and uncover insights. What Is Video Engagement and Why Is It Important?

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NTEN

DECEMBER 19, 2011

The first step in starting to measure your impact is to identify the major outcomes that you want to examine. For each outcome, specify what observable measures, or indicators, will suggest that you're achieving that key outcome for impact. Read the complete article, "From Outcomes to Impact," by subscribing to the journal for free! ].

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Care2

JANUARY 31, 2010

Interested in setting Facebook and Twitter benchmarks for your nonprofit but don’t know where to start? Check out M+R Strategic Services first Nonprofit Social Media Benchmarks Study , which includes sample research by groups such as Easter Seals, Oxfam, Human Rights Campaign, League of Conservation Voters, and more.

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Fast Company Tech

MARCH 18, 2025

When the progress from massive scaling leveled off, researchers knew they would need a new strategy, beyond training, to keep moving toward AGI models that are broadly smarter than humans. It even showed its work through research papers and by open-sourcing its models. The rest of the industry has followed its lead.

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Google Research AI blog

AUGUST 25, 2023

Posted by Susanna Ricco and Utsav Prabhu, co-leads, Perception Fairness Team, Google Research Google’s Responsible AI research is built on a foundation of collaboration — between teams with diverse backgrounds and expertise, between researchers and product developers, and ultimately with the community at large.

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Care2

JULY 6, 2023

Read on for new research from M+R Benchmarks, Care2, NEON One, Tatango, and more! Email + SMS: A measurable fundraising lift Fortunately, there are solutions to help your nonprofit organization find new donors and retain your existing ones.

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Connection Cafe

OCTOBER 6, 2014

The 2014 Luminate Online Benchmark Report is now available, just in time for #bbcon! Regardless of whether or not you’re using Luminate Online, the research and data from this report can give you a detailed view of how you’re measuring against your peers. billion in 18 million transactions and sent 7.6

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ASU Lodestar Center

MARCH 23, 2012

Welcome to Research Friday ! highlight current research reports or studies and discuss how they can. 8 Benchmarking, negotiation and evaluation are all critical to collaboration and dependent on reliable interchange. Click here to read Laurie Mook's "Research Friday: How to Measure Your Organization's True Impact ".

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 26, 2017

One important part of effective digital measurement is being able to benchmark your performance relative to your organization’s past performance or compared to peer organizations. One excellent resource to use for benchmarking nonprofit digital results (in the US) is the annual M&R Benchmarks study of nonprofit digital advocacy.

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Towards Data Science

FEBRUARY 2, 2024

Today, maximizing and measuring data team ROI is near the top of every data leader’s agenda. Time to build and maintain  — The time it takes to build and maintain your key data assets, including data products and machine learning capabilities, is a key lever that measures your data team’s productivity. Image by author.

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NTEN

JUNE 14, 2012

Last summer, we pulled together data from some of the country’s leading nonprofits to bring you the 2011 Benchmarks Extra: Facebook report, laying out basic benchmarks for nonprofit pages on Facebook. To download the 2012 Benchmarks Extra: Facebook, simply “like” M+R's page on Facebook.

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Towards Data Science

DECEMBER 1, 2023

Static workload benchmark is insufficient. The standard way to evaluate ANN indexes is to use a static workload benchmark , which consists of a fixed dataset and a fixed query set. A static workload benchmark. This evaluation approach was popularized by the ann-benchmarks project which started 5 years ago. MIT Licence.

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ASU Lodestar Center

MAY 25, 2012

Welcome to Research Friday ! As part of a continuing weekly series, each Friday we invite a nonprofit scholar, student, or professional to highlight current research reports or studies and discuss how they can inform and improve day-to-day nonprofit practice. Patsy Kraeger, Ph.D. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass. vii Rothschild, S.

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Google Research AI blog

FEBRUARY 2, 2023

Posted by Xingyou (Richard) Song, Research Scientist, and Chansoo Lee, Software Engineer, Google Research, Brain Team Google Vizier is the de-facto system for blackbox optimization over objective functions and hyperparameters across Google, having serviced some of Google’s largest research efforts and optimized a wide range of products (e.g.,

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 22, 2011

There are so social media analytic tools to measure social media and other emerging technologies, that we’ve created a new genre of Shiny Objective Syndrome — Data Puking disorder. It isn’t hard to see why we forget about one of the best ever social media measurement tools: surveys!

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NTEN

JUNE 18, 2009

You'll need both internal information gathering -- looking at previous year's budgets and actual performance, for example -- as well as outside research. Keep an eye out for published studies from credible sources that provide acceptable benchmarks about efficiency or effectiveness of a particular technology.

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NTEN

MAY 17, 2013

research and tools, and a list of creatures that walk a fine line between ugly and cute bring this week to a close--check out what your industrious community has been up to! Knight Foundation helped launch the Norman Lear Center Media Impact Project (MIP) which will attempt to measure the social impact of media. and James L.

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DataRobot

FEBRUARY 10, 2021

The promise and power of AI lead many researchers to gloss over the ways in which things can go wrong when building and operationalizing machine learning models. As a data scientist, one of my passions is to reproduce research papers as a learning exercise. The SARCOS dataset is a widely used benchmark dataset in machine learning.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 14, 2023

. “We are hoping Evals becomes a vehicle to share and crowdsource benchmarks, representing a maximally wide set of failure modes and difficult tasks.” ” OpenAI created Evals to develop and run benchmarks for evaluating models like GPT-4 while inspecting their performance.

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Forum One

NOVEMBER 11, 2024

Consider the digital components of these services—from benchmarking data reports to affinity partner discounts; from webinars to grants; from case work to fundraising; from research and policy to programs.

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