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)The Data Stack Show is a weekly podcast powered by RudderStack. Each week we’ll talk to data engineers, analysts, and data scientists about their experience around building and maintaining data infrastructure, delivering data and data products, and driving better outcomes across their businesses with data.RudderStack helps businesses make the most out of their customer data while ensuring data privacy and security. To learn more about RudderStack visit rudderstack.com. Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.