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Sean Taylor — Business Decision Problems

Sean joins us to chat about ML models and tools at Lyft Rideshare Labs, Python vs R, time series forecasting with Prophet, and election forecasting. --- Sean Taylor is a Data Scientist at (and former Head of) Lyft Rideshare Labs, and specializes in methods for solving causal inference and business decision problems. Previously, he was a Research Scientist on Facebook's Core Data Science team. His interests include experiments, causal inference, statistics, machine learning, and economics. Connect with Sean: Personal website: https://seanjtaylor.com/ Twitter:   / seanjtaylor   LinkedIn:   / seanjtaylor   --- Topics Discussed: 0:00 Sneak peek, intro 0:50 Pricing algorithms at Lyft 07:46 Loss functions and ETAs at Lyft 12:59 Models and tools at Lyft 20:46 Python vs R 25:30 Forecasting time series data with Prophet 33:06 Election forecasting and prediction markets 40:55 Comparing and evaluating models 43:22 Bottlenecks in going from research to production Transcript: http://wandb.me/gd-sean-taylor Links Discussed: "How Lyft predicts a rider’s destination for better in-app experience"": https://eng.lyft.com/how-lyft-predict... Prophet: https://facebook.github.io/prophet/ Andrew Gelman's blog post "Facebook's Prophet uses Stan": https://statmodeling.stat.columbia.ed... Twitter thread "Election forecasting using prediction markets":   / 1270899371706466304   "An Updated Dynamic Bayesian Forecasting Model for the 2020 Election": https://hdsr.mitpress.mit.edu/pub/nw1... --- 🎙 Get our podcasts on these platforms: Soundcloud: http://wandb.me/soundcloud Apple Podcasts: http://wandb.me/apple-podcasts Spotify: http://wandb.me/spotify Google: http://wandb.me/gd_google YouTube: http://wandb.me/youtube Join our community of ML practitioners where we host AMAs, share interesting projects and meet other people working in Deep Learning: http://wandb.me/fs​​ Check out Fully Connected, which features curated machine learning reports by researchers exploring deep learning techniques, Kagglers showcasing winning models, industry leaders sharing best practices, and more: https://wandb.ai/fully-connected