Alex P. Miller

Assistant Professor, Marketing Department

USC Marshall School of Business
Los Angeles, California

Research

Research Projects:

Alex P. Miller & Kartik Hosanagar. Personalized discount targeting in online retail with technographic trace data.
Alex P. Miller & Kartik Hosanagar. A meta-analytic investigation of p-hacking in e-commerce experimentation.
Alex P. Miller & Ron Berman. Test, Target, & Roll: Optimal explore-first contextual targeting in finite populations.
Alex P. Miller & Kartik Hosanagar. Meta-analysis of e-commerce A/B testing practices.
Kartik Hosanagar & Alex P. Miller. Improving algorithmic recommendation diversity with probabilistic item selection.

Writing

Contour plots in Python with matplotlib

Feb 2020 | Blog Post

How Targeted Ads and Dynamic Pricing Can Perpetuate Bias

Nov 2019 | Harvard Business Review

Data Science on a Chromebook with Jupyter, Python & R

Mar 2019 | Blog Post

The Difference Between Two Exponential Random Variables

Sep 2018 | math.stackexchange.com

Want Less-Biased Decisions? Use Algorithms

Jul 2018 | Harvard Business Review

Regulations like GDPR will make Big Tech stronger

Jul 2018 | Quartz Ideas

What good are business schools anyway?

Jun 2018 | Medium Featured Stories

Get locally imported modules from Jupyter notebook

May 2018 | stackoverflow.com

Fitting Linear Models with Custom Loss Functions in Python

Apr 2018 | Blog Post