A/B testing holistic redesigns can be tough. Here at Indeed, we learned this firsthand when we tried to take our UX from this to this: The Indeed mobile Search Engine Results Page (SERP) circa mid-2017 (left) and circa mid-2018 (right) Things didn’t go so hot. We’d spent months and months coming up with a beautiful […]
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Insights from applying scientific methods and algorithms to Indeed data to help people get jobs.
The Evolving Language of Data Science
…or Grokking the Bokeh of Scarse Meaning Increasement “You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means.” — Dr. Inigo Montoya I’m a technical writer at Indeed. One of the many great things about my job is that I get to work with smart people every day. A […]
Recognize Class Imbalance with Baselines and Better Metrics
In my first machine learning course as an undergrad, I built a recommender system. Using a dataset from a social music website, I created a model to predict whether a given user would like a given artist. I was thrilled when initial experiments showed that for 99% of the points in my dataset, I gave […]