Comparison between cooking data and plating it up ready for serving — This is part of a series where we compare professions. We interviewed Harrison Ford (analytics engineering) and Daniel Baron (data engineering) to find out more! What made you want to get into analytics engineering (AE) / data engineering (DE)? Harrison: I became an AE organically — I began my career…

Comparison between the pizza base and the toppings of the data meal — This is the first in a series where we compare professions. We interviewed Carmela Brook (data engineering) and Rita Figueiredio (data science) to find out more! What made you want to get into data science / data engineering? Rita: I studied Biomedical Engineering in university, a super broad degree with…

Not too big, not too small, but just right. We all know the story of Goldilocks and the 3 bears. The Goldilocks zone is used in Astronomy to refer to planets that orbit a star at a distance that is “just right” to support life as we know it, and…

What is a Discovery Week here at Gousto? In Data Engineering at Gousto, we introduced Discovery Week as a new approach to involve an entire team in the planning activities. The idea was to have a discovery phase where together we discover our Objectives and Key Results (OKR). Essentially prioritising what we’ll be working on for the next…

A wise Data Scientist once said a machine learning model is only ever as good as the data you feed into it. Hence at Gousto we’re constantly seeking ways to improve how we work with data and extract more value from it. With this in mind we decided to build…

This post is part of our series interviewing members of our GoustoTech team. In this post, we meet Mhairi who is a Business Analyst in Data Engineering. — What is your favourite food? Tough question! Probably carbonara or anything pasta based 🍝 Please introduce yourself and tell us about your role at Gousto. Hi I’m Mhairi! I’m a Business Analyst (BA) in data engineering (DE) at Gousto. I started in our Starfruits squad, which was focused on ingesting and modelling supply data, but now I work across all sorts of data engineering projects.

What is Operations Research? Operations research (OR) is a scientific approach to determining the optimal solution to a defined business problem. Through applying mathematical techniques, operations research allows complex issues to be optimally solved that would otherwise be impossible to determine. It is a very useful field of study for companies with complex operating…

What do you imagine when you hear the word mentor? You might picture someone high up in their career, guiding a graduate fresh out of the University oven. Or maybe you think about a master of their craft helping to fine-tune someone’s skills? Either way, mentoring is generally understood to…

There was a point on Monday morning where I was looking at a 25 metre long board full of randomly arranged orange stickies and thinking… we are never going to be able to sort out this mess. I had to fight a sensation of panic and I know the other…