Evaluating Push Notifications and a New Event-Based Notification
Context
You are a data scientist at Facebook working on push notifications. Facebook sends many notification types and is considering launching a new notification that alerts a user when a friend plans to attend an event.
Questions
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Which data and metrics would you use to determine whether an existing notification type is helpful or harmful to users?
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What analyses or experiments would you run to decide whether to launch the new event-based notification ("Your friend plans to attend
<Event>
")?
Hints: Consider funnel metrics, user experience trade-offs, A/B tests, downstream engagement, and churn.