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Netflix: A Culture of Learning

The Netflix TechBlog

The secret sauce that turns the raw ingredients of experimentation into supercharged product innovation is culture. We use qualitative and quantitative consumer research, analytics, experimentation, predictive modeling, and other tools to develop a deep understanding of our members. 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 power of Alexa in the hands of every developer, without having to know deep learning technologies like speech recognition, has the potential of sparking innovation in entirely new categories of products and services. Developers can now build powerful conversational interfaces quickly and easily, that operate at any scale, on any device.

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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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