I came across a post from Pinterest’s recent acquisition (hat tip OReilly’s Data Newsletter) and it made me wonder how some of the “cool kids” in e-commerce and other online properties use machine learning.  Surprisingly, it’s kind of scattered and hard to find. Here are just a handful of blog posts and videos I was able […]

I love finding academics and skilled practitioners who take the time to share something they find interesting in data mining and machine learning.  This week, Edwin Chen’s answer on Quora caught my eye. Edwin appears to be currently at DropBox as a Data Scientist and his past companies include Google, Twitter, and a degree from MIT. […]