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Netflix: A Culture of Learning

The Netflix TechBlog

There is broad buy-in across the company, including from the C-Suite, that, whenever possible, results from A/B tests or other causal inference approaches are near-requirements for decision making. We’ve also invested in education programs to up-level company-wide understanding of how we use A/B tests as a framework for product development.

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What Adrian Did Next?—?Part 2?—?Sun Microsystems

Adrian Cockcroft

I was mostly coding in C, tuning FORTRAN, and when I needed to do a lot of data analysis of benchmark results used the S-PLUS statistics language, that is the predecessor to R. I had attended these events when I was based in the UK, but became one of the organizers. Rich Pettit is one of the best programmers I ever met.

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Data Mining Problems in Retail

Highly Scalable

Although these problems are very different, we are trying to establish a common framework that helps to design optimization and data mining tasks required for solutions. The design of the model heavily depends on the problem. This model helps to design targeted usage expansion campaigns. Propensity to category expansion.

Retail 152