2018-02-19 · blog.fastforwardlabs.com

Exploring Recommendation Systems

While we commonly associate recommendation systems with e-commerce, their application extends to any decision-making problem which requires pairing two types of things together. To understand why recommenders don’t always work as well as we’d like them to, we set out to build…

2018-02-02 · hbr.org

How to Sell Embarrassing Products

Consumers are more likely to buy embarrassing products when their embarrassment is mitigated by more-anonymous packaging. Specifically, consumers found products packaged in boxes with cool colors, small lettering, and a picture of the product to be more anonymous (and appealing)…

2018-02-01 · mikedashhistory.com

An abandoned lifeboat at world’s end

Breaking news: a credible solution to the Bouvet Island lifeboat mystery has been found. See comments for 22-27 May 2011, 12 November 2011, 17-20 March & 9 April 2016, and 28 December 2023. The…

2018-02-01 · beta.observablehq.com

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2018-01-24 · practicalecommerce.com

Comparing A/B and Multivariate Testing

A/B tests are controlled experiments of two attributes, to measure which one was most popular with users. You can apply A/B testing to just about anything that you can measure. Multivariate testing allows you to measure multiple variables simultaneously.

2018-01-24 · raptitude.com

If It’s Important, Learn It Repeatedly

A little more than a year ago, a friend took me for lunch in downtown Toronto, and we talked mostly about what we’d been reading. Immediately afterward she marched me to a nearby bookstore and insisted I buy Cal Newport’s Deep Work. She was the second person that week to…

2018-01-23 · code.tutsplus.com

Introduction to Python Generators

Generators make it easy to create iterations in Python and in return write less code. This tutorial will introduce you to Python generators, their benefits, and how they work. Basics A generator...

2018-01-23 · t.co

HDFS vs. HBase : All you need to know - DataScienceCentral.com

The sudden increase in the volume of data from the order of gigabytes to zettabytes has created the need for a more organized file system for storage and processing of data. The demand stemming from the data market has brought Hadoop in the limelight making it one of biggest…