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7 Considerations Before Pushing Machine Learning Models to Production — In this article, I’ll share with you 7 of the considerations I have in mind before productionizing my models. Tags: ML, Modeling, Management

Lessons on ML Platforms: From Netflix, DoorDash, Spotify, and More — Your data scientists produce wonderful models, but they can only deliver value once the models are integrated into your production systems. How do you make it easy for the data scientists to repeatedly deliver value? What do you build, what do you buy, and what tools do you need to solve your organization’s problems specifically? Tags: ML, Netflix, Spotify, Models

The Future of Operational Analytics — A better way to make daily decisions is already here—just not at work. Tags: Data, Decisions, Yelp, Google, Resi

Spectrograms or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Audio Signal Processing for Machine Learning — The First Movement: Mechanical Waves, Time-Domain features, and how and why to extract them. Tags: ML, Signal Processing, Series

What Data Folk Were Saying about Zillow — Yes, I know there’s a gazillion posts about the Zillow situation being posted already. Aside from a brief summary for context and references at the end, this week’s post is NOT about what happened AT Zillow, but instead about the discussion that lots of professional numbers people, data scientists, risk managers, finance, quants, etc have to say about and around the situation, which is what I found super fascinating. Tags: Zillow, Analysis, Data Science

Kaggle Solutions — This is a list of almost all available solutions and ideas shared by top performers in the past Kaggle competitions. This list gets updated as soon as a new competition finishes. Tags: GitRepo, Prize Winners

Malloy — Malloy is an experimental language for describing data relationships and transformations. Malloy is not an officially supported Google product. Tags: SQL, IDE

Introduction to Probability for Data Science — This is a link to the free download of an undergraduate textbook on probability for data science. Tags: Education, Book, Data Science

TAO: Facebook’s Distributed Data Store for the Social Graph — This is the first in a two part series on TAO, Facebook’s read-optimized, eventually-consistent graph database. Unlike other graph databases, TAO focuses exclusively on serving and caching a constrained set of application requests at scale (in contrast to systems focused on data analysis). Tags: Facebook, TAO, Visualization, Graphing

Survival Analysis in Python — This tutorial is an introduction to survival analysis using computation rather than math. Tags: Education, Tutorial, Python

 

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