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How Netflix Used Deep Learning to Slash Video Quality Control Time by 90%
Neural networks, synthetic pixel generators and a smarter pipeline
Sep 11
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What the Data Crowd Was Reading in August 2025
Tools, techniques and deep dives worth reading that I came across last month.
Sep 4
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August 2025
How Grab Shrunk Real-Time Queries from 5 Minutes to 1 with FlinkSQL and Kafka
With SQL as the interface, analysts and engineers can now explore streams and deploy pipelines in under 10 minutes.
Aug 21
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How Uber Built an AI Agent That Answers Financial Questions in Slack
Inside Finch - the AI agent that finds the right data, runs the query and delivers secure, real-time answers where the team already works.
Aug 14
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What the Data Crowd Was Reading in July 2025
Tools, techniques and deep dives worth reading that I came across last month.
Aug 7
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July 2025
How to Show Impact as a Data Analyst
Because “delivered insights” won’t get you hired. Here’s how to prove your work actually changed something.
Jul 31
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How Expedia Monitors 1000+ A/B Tests in Real Time with Flink and Kafka
A look inside the pipeline that spots underperforming experiments in minutes and not days
Jul 24
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How Target Used GenAI to Lift Sales by 9% Across 100K+ Products
LLMs helped Target match the right add-ons, from throw pillows to phone cases -boosting engagement (+11%) and relevance (+12%) without blowing up…
Jul 17
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The Alignment Trap: When Stakeholders Want Data but Not the Truth
How to survive loaded questions, confirmation bias and requests for “just a quick chart.”
Jul 10
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How Bolt Reconciles €2B in Revenue Using Airflow, Spark and dbt
A look under the hood of a multi-country finance pipeline that ingests raw data, models discrepancies and reconciles cash flows at scale.
Jul 3
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June 2025
How DoorDash Used LLMs to Trigger 30% More Relevant Results
What happens when you mix knowledge graphs, tight vocabularies and just enough AI? You get cleaner segments, smarter retrieval and a system that knows…
Jun 26
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When the Ratio Lies: The Denominator Problem Explained
How misleading metrics creep in when you forget to ask “out of how many?”
Jun 20
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