Recommendation algorithms are at the core of the Netflix product. They provide members with personalized suggestions to reduce the amount of time and frustration to find something great content to watch.
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Netflix has been a data-driven company since its inception. Their analytic work arms decision-makers around the company with useful metrics, insights, predictions, and analytic tools so that everyone can be stellar in their function.
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Franziska Bell, Director of Data Science at Uber, wants to give every Uber employee the capabilities of a data scientist. Fran and her team extend these capabilities throughout Uber through the use of platforms, systems that let users enter parameters and select sets of data to help make business decisions.
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As a graduate student at UC Berkeley, Suzette Puente, Data Science Manager, used statistics to understand and explain animal mobility patterns. At Uber, Suzette and her team apply similar techniques to forecast traffic patterns. By leveraging spatio-temporal correlations, they can better predict travel time estimates and generate improved routes for driver-partners on our platform.
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