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Three Best Practices for Unilever’s Global Analytics Initiatives
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Getting Machine Learning Projects from Idea to Execution
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Eric Siegel on Bloomberg Businessweek
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Effective Machine Learning Needs Leadership — Not AI Hype
 Originally published in BigThink, Feb 12, 2024.  Excerpted from The...

Archive for August, 2022

Ten Mistakes to Avoid When Creating a Recommendation System

 Originally published in Medium.com, July 27, 2022.  We’ve been long working on improving the user experience in UGC products with machine learning. Here are our ten key lessons of implementing recommendation systems in business to build a really good product. 1. Define a Goal that Really Contributes to the Business Tasks The global task of

Supercharging A/B Testing at Uber

 Originally published in Uber Engineering, July 21, 2022. Introduction “Immensely laborious calculations on inferior data may increase the yield from 95 to 100 percent. A gain of 5 percent, of perhaps a small total. A competent overhauling...

Machine Learning for Snapchat Ad Ranking

 Originally published in Snapchat Engineering, July 11, 2022. Snapchat ad ranking aims to serve the right ad to the right user at the right time.  These are selected from millions of ads in our inventory at any...

Is Data Scientist Still the Sexiest Job of the 21st Century?

 Originally published in Harvard Business Review, July 15, 2022.  Ten years ago we published the article “Data Scientist: Sexiest Job of the 21st Century.” Most casual readers probably remember only the “sexiest” modifier — a comment on their...

Could Machine Learning Fuel a Reproducibility Crisis in Science?

 Originally published in Nature, July 26, 2022.   ‘Data leakage’ threatens the reliability of machine-learning use across disciplines, researchers warn. From biomedicine to political sciences, researchers increasingly use machine learning as a tool to make predictions on the...

Heinz Taps State-of-the-Art AI to Design Its Next Ad Campaign

 Originally published in AdWeek, Aug 1, 2022. The brand is one of the first to rely on OpenAI’s Dall-E 2 art generator. Heinz tapped an artificial intelligence-powered art generator to create a clever demonstration of the ubiquity...

Podcast: Four Things the Machine Learning Industry Must Learn from Self-Driving Cars

    Welcome to the next episode of The Machine Learning Times Executive Editor Eric Siegel’s podcast, The Doctor Data Show. Click here for all episodes and links to listen on your preferred platform. Four Things the Machine Learning Industry...