Facial recognition, society, and the law
Facial recognition being used in everyday life seemed far-off not too long ago. Increasingly, it’s being used and advanced widely and with increasing speed, which means that our technical capabilities...
2 Des 201943min
Lessons learned from doing data science, at scale, in industry
If you’ve taken a machine learning class, or read up on A/B tests, you likely have a decent grounding in the theoretical pillars of data science. But if you’re in a position to have actually built lot...
25 Nov 201928min
Varsity A/B Testing
When you want to understand if doing something causes something else to happen, like if a change to a website causes and dip or rise in downstream conversions, the gold standard analysis method is to ...
18 Nov 201936min
The Care and Feeding of Data Scientists: Growing Careers
In the third and final installment of a conversation with Michelangelo D’Agostino, VP of Data Science and Engineering at Shoprunner, about growing and mentoring data scientists on your team. Some of o...
11 Nov 201925min
The Care and Feeding of Data Scientists: Recruiting and Hiring Data Scientists
This week’s episode is the second in a three-part interview series with Michelangelo D’Agostino, VP of Data Science at Shoprunner. This discussion centers on building a team, which means recruiting, i...
4 Nov 201920min
The Care and Feeding of Data Scientists: Becoming a Data Science Manager
Data science management isn’t easy, and many data scientists are finding themselves learning on the job how to manage data science teams as they get promoted into more formal leadership roles. O’Reill...
28 Okt 201924min
Procella: YouTube's super-system for analytics data storage
If you’re trying to manage a project that serves up analytics data for a few very distinct uses, you’d be wise to consider having custom solutions for each use case that are optimized for the needs an...
21 Okt 201929min
Kalman Runners
The Kalman Filter is an algorithm for taking noisy measurements of dynamic systems and using them to get a better idea of the underlying dynamics than you could get from a simple extrapolation. If you...
13 Okt 201915min
