01_getting_started.md

Getting Started with Experiments

Onboarding Process

For access to XP, users can self-onboard via the MLP UI.

1. Visit MLP Landing Page, open the sidebar and click Experiments.

2. You should see the following Landing page, if you have yet to setup the project for Experiments.

3. Upon clicking 'here' in the previous page, you should see a form to input the necessary settings.

4. Enter a name for the Randomization Key and select the Segmenters.

   • The order of the segmenters determines the priority of the segmenters when optional segmenters are used. For example, if the chosen segmenters are s2_ids, and days_of_week (in that order) and a given request matches 2 experiments - one where the s2_ids is optional and another one where the days_of_week is optional, the s2_ids experiment (where there is an exact match of the s2_ids) will be chosen. For more information and examples, please refer to the Experiment Hierarchy section in the Introduction page.

   • Where the segmenter may be computed from several different (groups of) variables at runtime, also select the desired variable mapping. For example, s2_ids may be supplied as s2_id or computed from latitude,longitude. This must be specified in the settings.

5. Click on Save. And voila! The onboarding is complete and you should see the configured settings. The project credentials (in particular, the passkey) would be required for running experiments (Turing takes care of this if you are running the experiments through its routers).