SDS 619: Tools for Deploying Data Models into Production - with Erik Bernhardsson 

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‪@JonKrohnLearns‬ speaks with Erik Bernhardsson, the man who invented Spotify’s original music recommendation system. They address the different ways to interview a data science candidate, how to deploy a data model into the cloud, and the approach he took that made Spotify go from digital music startup to AI-driven streaming giant.
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In this episode you will learn:
• The data problem that Erik’s company Modal Labs solves [02:39]
• Erik’s prolific blogging career [07:22]
• Opportunities for making data teams more efficient and productive [12:49]
• Erik’s views on interviewing data scientists and software developers [18:24]
• Erik’s tips and tricks for data science interviewees [29:41]
• How Erik built Spotify’s original music recommendation system [37:04]
• Applying vectors to other tools, and opportunities for working with vectors [45:51]
• Using Annoy to search across vectors [49:03]
• Building Python module Luigi for Spotify [53:26]
• The tools that Erik loves to work with [1:04:29]
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