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

The Netflix TechBlog

At Netflix, our data scientists span many areas of technical specialization, including experimentation, causal inference, machine learning, NLP, modeling, and optimization. Together with data analytics and data engineering, we comprise the larger, centralized Data Science and Engineering group.

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How Our Paths Brought Us to Data and Netflix

The Netflix TechBlog

I bring my breadth of big data tools and technologies while Julie has been building statistical models for the past decade. Writing memos is a big part of Netflix culture, which I’ve found has been helpful for sharing ideas, soliciting feedback, and documenting project details.

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Incremental Processing using Netflix Maestro and Apache Iceberg

The Netflix TechBlog

For example, a job would reprocess aggregates for the past 3 days because it assumes that there would be late arriving data, but data prior to 3 days isn’t worth the cost of reprocessing. Backfill: Backfilling datasets is a common operation in big data processing. append, overwrite, etc.).

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Building and Scaling Data Lineage at Netflix to Improve Data Infrastructure Reliability, and…

The Netflix TechBlog

Building and Scaling Data Lineage at Netflix to Improve Data Infrastructure Reliability, and Efficiency By: Di Lin , Girish Lingappa , Jitender Aswani Imagine yourself in the role of a data-inspired decision maker staring at a metric on a dashboard about to make a critical business decision but pausing to ask a question?—?“Can

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Reimagining Experimentation Analysis at Netflix

The Netflix TechBlog

ABlaze: The standard view of analyses in the XP UI Suppose you’re running a new video encoding test and theorize that the two new encodes should reduce play delay, a metric describing how long it takes for a video to play after you press the start button. Our data scientists faced numerous challenges in our previous infrastructure.

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Spice up your Analytics: Amazon QuickSight Now Generally Available in N. Virginia, Oregon, and Ireland.

All Things Distributed

They require teams of data engineers to spend months building complex data models and synthesizing the data before they can generate their first report. The cost and complexity to implement, scale, and use BI makes it difficult for most companies to make data analysis ubiquitous across their organizations.

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