SDS 435: Scaling Up Machine Learning

Erica Greene joins us to discuss her work as a machine learning manager at Etsy, how they tackle problem-solving, how they implement ML scaling, and more. In this episode you will learn: • Erica’s role at Etsy and problem solving between platforms [2:28] • Interesting failures Erica has navigated [25:40] • How does Erica’s team select problems to solve [33:07] • Engineering at scale [40:15] • What does Erica’s working day look like? [46:30] • Etsy is hiring [53:00] • Diversity in hiring [57:12] • Do data scientists need PhDs? [1:01:26] Additional materials: www.superdatascience.com/435