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Bayesian cold-start recommender
Bayesian cold-start recommender
How we turned the BBC’s Efficient Learning algorithm into a cold-start reccommender.
Matt Crooks
Jun 25, 2021
Efficient Learning — the BBC’s Bayesian quiz engine
Efficient Learning — the BBC’s Bayesian quiz engine
Learn how we utilise user data to personalise and improve BBC Bitesize’s Efficient Learning GCSE quiz
Matt Crooks
Jun 14, 2021
How to do Data Science when you don’t have any data…
How to do Data Science when you don’t have any data…
This was exactly the situation that our Data Science Team faced during the Covid-19 crisis in March 2020. Find out how we created an ML…
Matt Crooks
Jan 18, 2021
Measuring Podcast Trail Effectiveness
Measuring Podcast Trail Effectiveness
Measuring audio trail effectiveness without a full A/B test
Daniel Hills
Jan 6, 2021
Increasing experiment sensitivity through pre-experiment variance reduction
Increasing experiment sensitivity through pre-experiment variance reduction
This article discusses how the Experimentation team have been accounting for pre-experiment variance in order to increase the statistical…
Frank Hopkins
Sep 24, 2020
Deploying R models in production with Apache Airflow and AWS Batch
Deploying R models in production with Apache Airflow and AWS Batch
Productionizing machine learning models in R: A step-by-step guide
Teodor Popescu
Apr 14, 2020
Experimentation: tools and techniques
Experimentation: tools and techniques
The Experimentation and Optimisation Team discuss the scripting tools they have developed to assist products throughout the…
Frank Hopkins
Mar 24, 2020
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