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Continue reading →: Stop blaming tech for Trump
Last night, I was browsing TechCrunch for interesting reads on tech. I noticed something. Tech doesn’t seem to be happy with Trump. There’s an article about the influence social media had on the way we gauged Trump’s chances of beating Hillary. Heck, there’s even a post about Facebook admitting they…
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Continue reading →: Personalized offline ads – Part 1: Recognizing people
Online ads are getting more and more personalized. To a large degree, this is made possible because of the huge amounts of data gathered online. Using this data, smart algorithms are able to tailor ads to a specific person’s interests and needs. What if we would be able to personalize…
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Continue reading →: The Genie in the Bottle: How to Tame AI?
While we’re seeing some great progress in AI, there is increasing concern about the danger of it by people like Stephen Hawking. This ‘possible existential threat to humanity’ is the reason why people like Elon Musk and Sam Altman started OpenAI. The authority on the threat of AI is Nick…
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Continue reading →: 7 reasons to use Snowplow besides Google Analytics 360
We recently got the question: if we start using Google Analytics 360 and Big Query, do we still need to use a second data logger like Snowplow Analytics? A great question. I discussed this question with our data team and it turns out using Snowplow (an open source data logger)…
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Continue reading →: Connecting offline sales to online campaign sources with Google Analytics – Part 2
Connecting offline to online is a challenge, but this week we did it. We’ve measured our first offline sales in Google Analytics, and we can directly attribute these to online campaign sources! …. This post describes the general system. The second post will discuss the actual code used in the…
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Continue reading →: Helping our new Data Scientists start in Python: A guide to learning by doing
The Data Science team at Greenhouse Group is steadily growing and continuously changing. This also implies new Data Scientists and interns starting regularly. Each new Data Scientist we hire is unique and has a different set of skills. What they all have in common though is a strong analytical background…
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Continue reading →: Api.ai vs Wit.ai (or is it Google vs Facebook?)
Yesterday’s big news in the world of chatbots was Google acquiring Api.ai, a company which allows developers to integrate natural language processing and understanding into their applications. Think of it like talking to someone, but instead, that someone is now your phone, and it actually understands what you’re saying. Services…
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Continue reading →: How to set up ESLint with Airbnb JavaScript Style Guide in WebStorm
Last year, Gaya wrote an incredibly useful article about how to get Airbnb’s JavaScript Style Guide working in WebStorm. However, JSCS has joined ESLint quite a while ago. We still want our code to validate through Airbnb’s JS style guide. So for us, a migration to ESLint was a natural…
