data science Articles

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    Celebrating Innovation, Success, and the Future at Data Science Week 2020

    September 30, 2020

    Last week, the global LinkedIn Data Science team joined together for our third-annual Data Science Week. This virtual event included workshops, conference talks, networking events, an awards ceremony, and a fireside chat with Mohak Shroff, LinkedIn’s Senior Vice President of Engineering. It was a celebration of our team and our successes over the past year, a...

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    Bringing Project Every Member to life: Open sourcing our Spark inequality A/B testing library

    May 26, 2020

    Co-authors: Guillaume Saint-Jacques, Stuart Ambler Last month on this blog, we introduced how we are building inclusive products through A/B testing, something we internally call Project Every Member, and discussed the novel application of inequality A/B testing using the Atkinson index and the use of this technique in the product design process at LinkedIn....

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    Building inclusive products through A/B testing

    March 31, 2020

    Co-authors: Guillaume Saint-Jacques, Amir Sepehri, Nicole Li, and Igor Perisic Introduction Previously on this blog, we’ve shared information on best practices in data science, particularly in areas such as A/B testing. We’ve also discussed the importance of ethics in fields such as data science, early implementations of “fairness by design” principles in our...

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    How we mapped the “skills genome” of emerging jobs

    December 10, 2019

    In today’s newly-published Emerging Jobs Report, we introduce the “skills genome methodology” to highlight the unique skills for...

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    DataHub: A generalized metadata search & discovery tool

    August 14, 2019

    Co-authors: Mars Lan, Seyi Adebajo, Shirshanka Das Editor’s note: Since publishing this blog post, the team open sourced DataHub in...

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    Fairness, Privacy, and Transparency by Design in AI/ML...

    July 26, 2019

    Co-authors: Stuart Ambler, Ahsan Chudhary, Mark Dietz, Sahin Cem Geyik, Krishnaram Kenthapadi, Ian Koeppe, Varun Mithal, Guillaume...