Data Science at Airbnb (with Robert Chang)
Discover how data science impacts decision making at Airbnb, Twitter and digital businesses in general.
About Robert Chang
Robert is currently a data scientist at Airbnb, where he uses machine learning to predict the value of new supply in the marketplace. Prior to his current role, he was a data scientist at Twitter leveraging product analytics and experimentation to drive user growth. Robert has a broad interest in sharing his experience working in tech, evangelizing and educating aspiring data scientists how to get into the field and become effective. He graduated from University of California, Berkeley with a degree in Operations Research and Stanford University with a degree in Statistics.
Links from the show
FROM THE INTERVIEW
- Robert's post on Advice for New and Junior Data Scientists
- Robert's post on A Beginner's Guide to Data Engineering -- Part 1
- Robert's post on Doing Data Science at Twitter
- Flowing Data, which explores how statisticians, designers, data scientists, and others use analysis, visualization, and exploration to understand data and ourselves.
FROM THE SEGMENTS
Data Science Best Practices (with Justin Bois)
Data Science Blog Post of the Week (with Spencer Boucher)
Original music and sounds by The Sticks.