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A Day in the Life of an Experimentation and Causal Inference Scientist @ Netflix

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We worked in different industries before joining Netflix, including tech, entertainment, retail, science policy, and research. While working on my PhD in political science, I realized my curiosity was always more piqued by methodological coursework, which led me to take as many stats/data science courses as I could.

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Driving Bandwidth Cost Down for AWS Customers. - All Things.

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For Amazon retail, some of those dimensions are low pricing, large catalog, fast shipping, and convenience. For example, when our retail customers contributed to create larger economies of scale for Amazon.com, we used the savings to lower pricing such that our customers could also benefit. Driving down the cost of Big-Data analytics.

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Dutch Enterprises and The Cloud

All Things Distributed

Given that I am originally from the Netherlands I have, of course, a special interest in how Dutch companies are using our cloud services. . Shell leverages AWS for big data analytics to help achieve these goals. Europe is a continent with much diversity and for each country there are great AWS customer examples to tell.

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World’s Top Web Performance Leaders To Watch

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Author of the Pocket Guide to Web Performance and co-author of Using WebPageTest , Andy is an independent web performance consultant in the UK who has helped many leading retailers, newspapers and financial companies make their sites faster. Most recently, he launched a fantastic new HTML5 Mastery… course. Vitaly Friedman.