Sean J. Taylor @seanjtaylor

Building @MotifAnalytics. Formerly @Lyft and @Facebook. Keywords: Experiments, Causal Inference, Statistics, Machine Learning, Economics. seanjtaylor.com Oakland, CA Joined February 2009

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William Wolf @willium

2 days ago

Today I’m excited to share a little about the new company I’ve been working on: Gestalt is the best way for businesses to deeply understand people. In many ways, I view Gestalt as a Human Data Interface — a new kind of tool that reimagines how we think about data as humans,…

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Sean J. Taylor @seanjtaylor

2 days ago

Motif is descended from Kerry’s work! This sunburst visualization was turned into a self-service tool (used throughout Google) by my co-founders, and it was the very first viz we built. Being curious enough about your product and users to invent new tools is inspiring.

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Sean J. Taylor @seanjtaylor

3 days ago

It took decades of finding my way on the internet but I've finally found a community to call my own. devforum.zoom.us/t/prevent-zoom…

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Sean J. Taylor @seanjtaylor

5 days ago

The data scientist starter pack circa 2013.

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Sean J. Taylor @seanjtaylor

a week ago

I wrote about how we decompose data analysis work at @MotifAnalytics, inspired by more traditional tools for data analysis (like the @tidyverse) and adapted those steps for working with event sequence data. linkedin.com/pulse/transfor…

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Sean J. Taylor @seanjtaylor

a month ago

Standing room only for @wesmckinn’s talk at @DataCouncilAI this morning!

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Hamilton Ulmer @hamiltonulmer

a month ago

Dominik showcasing the power of MotherDuck's hybrid mode w/ Mosaic! Imagine getting near-instant interactivity in your analytics apps for free. Entirely new UX patterns in data analysis are made possible

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Sean J. Taylor @seanjtaylor

a month ago

We have another Bay Area Tech Economics seminar on Thursday March 28, featuring Karin Kimbrough, Chief Economist at LinkedIn. It's at 6:30pm on the USF campus. More details (and signup form) at our seminar website: docs.google.com/document/d/e/2…

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Josh Wills @josh_wills

a month ago

Me when I start my new software engineering job

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Sean J. Taylor @seanjtaylor

2 months ago

On a rainy day in December I met up with Yuzheng Sun from the Pragmatic Data Scientists channel to talk about: - motivating EDA from a business value standpoint - event sequences as information-rich, high dimensional data - inventing new things vs using things off-the-shelf

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nixtla @nixtlainc

2 months ago

🎉 Nixtla is growing! 🎉 We’re excited to share that 5️⃣ new members have joined our team to enhance our capabilities in time series research and deployment. Their diverse skills, backgrounds, and fresh perspectives are crucial as we aim to expand the reach and functionality of…

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Sean J. Taylor @seanjtaylor

2 months ago

I’d imagine we’ll see longer and more complex system prompts over time, especially as we delegate more decision making and scope to LLMs. It’s got to be quite the challenge to generate and evaluate them. Feels similar to writing the constitution for a country.

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Sean J. Taylor @seanjtaylor

2 months ago

A mini poll for people who use Jupyter or Colab notebooks. Do you use widgets on a regular basis? If you answer yes, it would be great if you could mention which widgets you use most frequently.