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Tackling the Cold Start Problem for Recommendation Engines
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Super Bowl Beer Recommendation Engines
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Go from Data-Driven to Insights-Driven
The road from a pile of data to business insights and from insights to action is paved with good intentions, but often learning things from data takes excessive time and energy. More often than...
How to Hire for Technical, Data-Centric Roles
Unemployment is low, and the demand for skilled workers is high in many industries. That means top tech talent is more in-demand than ever, and 87% of hiring managers find it difficult to get the...
How AI Will Change Brick-and-Mortar Retail in 2019
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Top Insights from 50 Chief Data Officers
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Students Combat MS with Data Science
Machine learning can effectively be leveraged to support NGOs, but it often requires sponsorship and organizational support to generate the resources needed for such data explorations. The...
Data Tools We're Thankful For
It’s that time of year, when we take stock of all that we’re grateful for in our lives. Since we know that
concretely expressing gratitude can make you happier, we’ve compiled a list of the top...
Driving Success through Business Insight, One Customer at a Time
Customer success at Dataiku is about companies achieving positive business outcomes through their engagement and interaction with our product, and the customer success team does this by...
All About Scikit-Learn, with Olivier Grisel
Scikit-learn is one of the most popular data science tools in the world, and we wanted to learn more about how it's made. We spoke with Olivier Grisel, a full-time open source developer and one...
Egg-Not-Egg Deep Learning Model
We’re really excited about our upcoming EGG Paris and EGG NYC conferences next week. There will be data science experts running demos, talks and use cases from industry leaders, and lots of...
Don’t Use AI When BI Will Suffice!
Artificial Intelligence (AI) offers organizations immense power, from predictions to recommendations to smarter decision making - but organizational resistance to this shift is a huge problem....
Open Source Deep Dive with Olivier Grisel
We all know that open source is critical to data science, but we wanted to learn more about the process of creating these tools and the motivation driving the impressive people building them. Most...
How AI Can Help Cope with Data Scientists’ Boredom
Data scientist churn is a big problem, and it’s not getting resolved through cushy perks and office snacks. Often the role can be repetitive and frustrating, and since data scientists are so...
From Project Manager to Data Champion — Conquer Your Data Projects
Project Managers are experts at adaptation and evolution. They know how to keep their team on track and on budget, while encouraging creative problem-solving. They have contingency plans for their...
All About Open Source
While many open source offerings fall outside the domain of data science, everyone knows that there is an open source tool (or twenty) for every data project. That's why we commissioned 451...
A Three Month Data Analysis in Excel Could Have Taken Me One Day
This is the story of my literature thesis, which ran data analysis on short stories, and that I worked on to graduate with a B.A. in English this past May. It took me 10 laborious months of...
Data Projects WILL Fail - Learn to Fail Quickly & Efficiently
In case you haven’t heard, a whopping 85% of big data projects fail (we’ve already talked about why). But data science is an inherently risky endeavor, so the challenge today is not how to avoid...
