Diagnosing and Testing Solutions for Cold Food Deliveries
Scenario
You are a data scientist at a food-delivery marketplace experiencing a spike in customer complaints that delivered meals arrive cold.
Task
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How would you diagnose why customers receive cold food?
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What key metrics would you break down and monitor?
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Design an A/B test to evaluate a solution intended to keep food hot.
Hints
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Consider the end-to-end supply chain: kitchen prep, handoff, courier routing, batching/stacking, packaging, and time in transit.
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Define leading vs lagging metrics, success criteria, and the assignment unit for the experiment.