42: Scaling Data Science with Ryan Boyer of Shipt

Highlights from this week’s episode include:

• Ryan's full circle path from stocking shelves at Target to using data science for a company owned by Target (2:00)
• Building great tools and wielding them effectively (5:04)
• Changes at Shipt since being acquired (9:29)
• How people’s bias impacts models built by data scientists (12:30)
• The different data sources Shipt incorporates (22:02)
• How Ryan's work as a data scientist has changed as Shipt has grown (25:29)
• How data science helps marketing (31:38)
• Improving search experience (34:23)
• Shipt's evolving data stack (38:27)
• New trends in data science (47:06)

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