Over the past few years, machine learning has grown tremendously. But as young as machine learning is as a discipline, the craft of managing a machine learning team is even younger. Many of today’s machine learning mangers were thrust into management roles out of necessity or because they were the best individual contributors, and many come from purely academic backgrounds. At … [Read more...] about The 4 Steps to Build Out Your Machine Learning Team Productively
The 5 Components Towards Building Production-Ready Machine Learning Systems
Introduction The biggest issue facing machine learning is how to put the system into production. Machine learning systems differ from traditional software in two fundamental ways: Machine learning is never fully deterministic; therefore, the performance of an ML system can’t be evaluated against a strict specification. Instead, it should always be evaluated against … [Read more...] about The 5 Components Towards Building Production-Ready Machine Learning Systems
A Friendly Introduction to Data-Driven Marketing for Business Leaders
Introduction Marketing attribution has been around for many years, and as the number of available advertising channels continues to shift and expand, so do the strategies employed by teams to leverage those channels. In this blog post, I want to dive deep specifically into using machine learning models as opposed to heuristic models for marketing attribution across … [Read more...] about A Friendly Introduction to Data-Driven Marketing for Business Leaders