dasternberg

4 ms·

1. 1.▲
   by dasternberg 5y ago

   Congrats on the HN launch Graham and team! :)
2. 2.▲
   by dasternberg 5y ago

   Re: Eppo - they're similar in setup but Growthbook is open source with an optional cloud SaaS offering. Eppo is currently cloud SaaS only AFAIK. Re: Optimizely - Optimizely is a walled garden, you need to push all of your metrics as ev
3. 3.▲
   by dasternberg 9y ago

   Not sure how this comment relates to PyMC3 though - PyMC3 is for Bayesian statistical modeling with MCMC. It uses Theano as a backend. Keras is a specifically for neural networks.
4. 4.▲
   by dasternberg 10y ago

   Aleph is an open source Rails app and some great folks where I used to work built it - worth a look: https://github.com/lumoslabs/aleph
5. 5.▲
   by dasternberg 10y ago

   Out of curiosity, are these end users building on top of each other's work, and if so what tools are they using to do this?
6. 6.▲
   by dasternberg 10y ago

   In my experience you have to strike a balance between allowing exploration that unblocks people outside the team to look into data (with a bit of a buyer-beware attitude) to help them build intuitions while making sure that core metrics tha
7. 7.▲
   by dasternberg 10y ago

   We actually control access to our raw data sources. The vast majority of people looking at data look at data we surface in our BI layer in Looker (or in Aleph if they know SQL). I didn't focus on this in the article, but in addition to
8. 8.▲
   by dasternberg 10y ago

   Thanks! this approach has worked well for us so far, and we have a lot of product engineers writing their own ETLs for new features that launch at this point. We've found enabling teams to self-serve where possible works well for us,