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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.
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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
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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…
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Matt Crooks
Jan 18, 2021
Measuring Podcast Trail Effectiveness

Measuring Podcast Trail Effectiveness

Measuring audio trail effectiveness without a full A/B test
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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…
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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
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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…
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Frank Hopkins
Mar 24, 2020
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