A recent but quite common observation in industry is that although there is an overall high adoption of data science, many companies struggle to get it into production. Huge teams of well-payed data scientists often present one fancy model after the other to their managers but their proof of concepts …

As Germany’s biggest online car marketplace, mobile.de provides a personalized web experience. Our Data Team leverages the interactions of our users to infer their preferences. For this tasks we often apply Python and Spark to wrangle massive amounts of data. In this talk, we are going to present …

At mobile.de, Germany’s biggest car marketplace, a dedicated team of data engineers and scientists, supported by the IT project house inovex is responsible for creating intelligent data products. Driven by our company slogan “Find the car that fits your life”, we focus on personalised recommendations to address several …

This talk presented at the EuroPython 2016 introduces several Python libraries related to the handling of GPS data. The slides of this talk are available on Github or on nbviewer.

This talk presented at the PyData Amsterdam 2016 explains the idea of Bayesian model selection techniques, especially the Automatic Relevance Determination. The slides of this talk are available on SlideShare.

Even in the era of Big Data there are many real-world problems where the number of input features has about …