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Re:CausalImpact: Causal Inference using Bayesian structural ... by MaxwellM on Thursday October 29, 2015 @12:26PM (#10472254)
Agreed, this documentation is exceptional - It makes something rather complicated look trivially easy to implement.

It would great to have a "Analysed with CausalImpact" page like a "built with AngularJs" where we can explore how this was used in the wild.

I'm tempted to start applying this immediately, but I look forward to reading http://static.googleusercontent.com/media/research.google.co... before starting.

Re:CausalImpact: Causal Inference using Bayesian structural ... by dj-wonk on Thursday October 29, 2015 @09:08AM (#10470644)
It is refreshing to see the 'How can I check whether the model assumptions are fulfilled?' section included. Causal modeling is notoriously easy to misinterpret.
Re:CausalImpact: Causal Inference using Bayesian structural ... by closed on Thursday October 29, 2015 @08:37AM (#10470506)
I love how clean the documentation is. It seems like oftentimes new methods are implemented as an afterthought (if at all). I would need to read the article to know what's it doing under the hood, but felt like it would be very easy to tinker with while I did!