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Themes and Conferences per Pacoid, Episode 8

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That resulted in server farms, collecting volumes of log data from customer interactions, data which was then aggregated and fed into machine learning algorithms which created data products as pre-computed results, which in turn made web apps smarter and enhanced e-commerce revenue. In short, the virtuous cycle is growing.

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Data Science, Past & Future

Domino Data Lab

By virtue of that, if you take those log files of customers interactions, you aggregate them, then you take that aggregated data, run machine learning models on them, you can produce data products that you feed back into your web apps, and then you get this kind of effect in business. I can point to the year 2001. All righty.

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Data Science at The New York Times

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In 2001, Bill Cleveland writes this article saying, “You are doing it wrong.” Here is a picture of The New York Times on its birthday in 1851, and for the vast majority of its lifespan this is pretty much what the user experience of interacting with The New York Times looks like. Editors can interact with this bot.