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Netflix: A Culture of Learning

The Netflix TechBlog

We use qualitative and quantitative consumer research, analytics, experimentation, predictive modeling, and other tools to develop a deep understanding of our members. our first investments in tooling to support A/B tests came way back in 2001. Early experimentation tooling at Netflix, from 2001.

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Bringing the Magic of Amazon AI and Alexa to Apps on AWS.

All Things Distributed

The concept has been explored by many popular science fiction movies and TV shows, such as "2001: A Space Odyssey" with HAL-9000 or the Star Trek computer and Commander Data, which defined the perception of computer-generated speech. I am pleased to share some of the positive feedbacks from our beta customers.

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Data Mining Problems in Retail

Highly Scalable

most of them are structured as data scientist manuals focusing on algorithms and methodologies and assume that human decisions play a central role in transforming analytical findings into business actions. This framework will later be used to describe analytical problems in a more uniform way. Konstan, and John Riedl, 2001.

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