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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. 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.

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

Adrian Cockcroft

I really enjoyed the variety of working with several different customers every day, on different problems, and being part of an extremely innovative and fast growing company. This was a big jump to make, I had to wear a suit to work every day, and spend all my time paired up with a sales rep visiting customers. that a lot of people used.

Tuning 52
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Data Mining Problems in Retail

Highly Scalable

More specifically, the article was inspired by three major case studies from Albert Heijn [KOK07], the largest supermarket chain in the Netherlands, Zara [CA12], an international apparel retailer, and RueLaLa [JH14], an innovative online fashion retailer. Heckerman, and C. DG12] How Companies Learn Your Secrets, C. Kadie, 1998.

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