Data Science at DoorDash (Jessica Lachs)

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Data Science at DoorDash (Jessica Lachs)

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Jan 22, 2019

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When you work at a startup, it can expose you to work on different areas in a short amount of time. Jessica Lachs, Head of Analytics at DoorDash leverages data science to improve the business. We talked about what data science is, and examples of how it is used at DoorDash. Jessica also explained what it involved to launch the business in other cities.

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A podcast about what we work on, not what it feels like to be a woman in tech. Hosted by Edaena Salinas, Software Engineer at Microsoft. Website: wit.fm

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Diversity Throughout the Decades with Andrea Taylor: Andrea comes from an interesting background as when she was very young witnessed Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s speech on the National Mall.This event had a positive impact in her life, and we talked about the role that having a background in civil rights has played throughout her various positions in her career including at Microsoft. Andrea gave an insight to her trajectory and the motivation for deciding to lead the Birmingham Civil Rights Institute and work preserving the history of the united states and the civil rights movement. Andrea also explained the initiatives that she worked on at Microsoft to make technology accessible to underprivileged people. We also talked about diversity and the types of activities that can help improve it in the technology field. by The Women in Tech Show: A Technical Podcast
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Human-Centered Design with Jasmine Lawrence: At 13 years old, Jasmine Lawrence founded EDEN BodyWorks, a company that provides natural products for the hair and body. Jasmine explained the challenges of building tangible products, and how this is different than building software. Jasmine is a Program Manager at Microsoft in the HoloLens team. She has worked in robotics and designing software in the gaming space. by The Women in Tech Show: A Technical Podcast
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Taming Complexity In Your Data Driven Organization With DataOps - Episode 130: An interview about using a DataOps approach to reduce the technical and organizational complexity that occurs in data driven organizations. by Data Engineering Podcast
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Diving into Divercial with Randeep Purewal: In this episode, host Brandon Laws sits down with Randeep Purewal, CEO and Founder of Divercial, an all-in-one B2B SaaS solution for building an inclusive workplace culture. Randeep believes that, unlike the subjective human perspective, technology... by Transform Your Workplace
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Harvinder Atwal: What Happened When MoneySupermarket Embraced DataOps by The Business of Data Podcast
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1269: Cloud OLAP for Enterprise Analytics: AtScale Co-founder, Sarah Gerweck shares the story behind her career in tech by The Tech Talks Daily Podcast
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Data Exploration For Business Users Powered By Analytics Engineering With Lightdash: An interview with Oliver Laslett about the open source Lightdash framework for business intelligence and how it builds on the work that your analytics engineers are doing with dbt. by Data Engineering Podcast
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Strategies For A Successful Data Platform Migration: All software systems are in a constant state of evolution. This makes it impossible to select a truly future-proof technology stack for your data platform, making an eventual migration inevitable. In this episode Gleb Mezhanskiy and Rob Goretsky share their experiences leading various data platform migrations, and the hard-won lessons that they learned so that you don't have to. by Data Engineering Podcast
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Data Mesh: Defining a New Data Architecture Paradigm with Zhamak Dehghani: ThoughtWorks' Director of Next Tech Incubation Zh… by Coding Over Cocktails
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How to be a Successful CDAO in 2022 by The Business of Data Podcast
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Product Management in Machine Learning // Laszlo Sragner // MLOps Meetup #54 by MLOps.community
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What Can Machines Do That Lawyers Can't? A.I. Applications for Law: A Conversation with Richard Downe by The AI in Business Podcast
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#6 - DoorDash Head of Commercial Kathy Zhu on Staying Nimble Despite Bandwidth Constraints: Kathy discusses creating efficiencies by leveraging contract attorneys, technology to manage volume, and data to justify spend. by Lawtrades Podcast
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Designing Data Platforms For Fintech Companies: Working with financial data requires a high degree of rigor due to the numerous regulations and the risks involved in security breaches. In this episode Andrey Korchack, CTO of fintech startup Monite, discusses the complexities of designing and implementing a data platform in that sector. by Data Engineering Podcast
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AI and the Democratization of Data of with Alonso Castañeda Andrade: Dr. Jerry Smith welcomes you to another episode of AI Live and Unbiased to explore the breadth and depth of Artificial Intelligence and to encourage you to change the world, not just observe it! Dr. Jerry is joined today by , who is the... by AI Live & Unbiased
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Maria Tarasidou: What Big Tech Gets Right About the Future of Business by The Business of Data Podcast
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Building a Successfully "Spiky" Org (Part 2), with Jean-Denis Greze, Head of Engineering @ Plaid #18: Organizational change is hard. In part 2, Jean-Denis Greze explores how you can adapt and transform the strengths, capabilities or “spikes” of your organization by intentionally using the strategies of “Isolation”, “Outlets” and “Shocks.” He shares a ton of great real-world examples and case studies to help you apply these strategies in your org. by The Engineering Leadership Podcast
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Investec’s Daniel Seymore on Change Management, Business Agility, and Developing Domain Expertise: Daniel Seymore, Head of Business Intelligence at South Africa-based financial services company, Investec, covers best practices for building successful teams, upskilling the next generation of IT professionals, and why domain experience is the prominent skill needed for all data and analytics leaders. by The Data Chief
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The Disciplined Pursuit of Less: Using AI and Design to Maximize Customer Impact w/ Dheeraj Pandey #169: In today’s episode, we’re resharing Dheeraj Pandey’s popular session from ELC Annual 2023 on the disciplined pursuit of less! As the Co-Founder, CEO & Chairman of DevRev.ai, he shares how AI tools can maximize customer impact & reduce information asymmetry between various teams, including eng, customer support, product, sales, etc., ultimately creating a more customer-centric mindset. He reveals how to leverage AI to tackle “verbs,” such as classifying, routing, attributing, summarizing and more, further streamlining productivity and empowering your org to focus on customer needs. by The Engineering Leadership Podcast
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Writing The Book That Offers A Single Reference For The Fundamentals Of Data Engineering: An interview with Joe Reis and Matt Housley about their experience and insights gained while writing the book "Fundamentals of Data Engineering" and the inherent challenges of offering a single reference that covers the variety of skills necessary to work as a data engineer. by Data Engineering Podcast
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How Shopify Is Building Their Production Data Warehouse Using DBT: An interview with Shopify's engineers about how they are using DBT to build a data warehouse platform that scales to meet the needs of the business. by Data Engineering Podcast
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2827: Data, Decisions, and Dagster: Nick Schrock's Blueprint for Engineering Excellence: Nick Schrock, the innovative mind behind Dagster Labs and the renowned co-creator of GraphQL, joins me on Tech Talks Daily. Nick takes us through his illustrious journey from his foundational days at Facebook, where he spearheaded the Product... by The Tech Talks Daily Podcast
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Strise with Marit Rødevand: Priyanka Vergadia hops back into the host seat this week, joining Mark Mirchandani to talk to Marit Rødevand of Strise. by Google Cloud Platform Podcast
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[DataFramed Careers Series #1] Launching a Data Career in 2022 by DataFramed
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2283: How to Harness the Power of EDB Postgres: Marc Linster, the CTO of EnterpriseDB (EDB), joins me recently on Tech Talks Daily to talk about the benefits and growing popularity of open source database technology. With over 20 years of experience in the database industry, Marc is a leading... by The Tech Talks Daily Podcast
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Data Sharing Across Business And Platform Boundaries: Sharing data is a simple concept, but complicated to implement well. There are numerous business rules and regulatory concerns that need to be applied. There are also numerous technical considerations to be made, particularly if the producer and consumer of the data aren't using the same platforms. In this episode Andrew Jefferson explains the complexities of building a robust system for data sharing, the techno-social considerations, and how the Bobsled platform that he is building aims to simplify the process. by Data Engineering Podcast
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Defining A Strategy For Your Data Products: The primary application of data has moved beyond analytics. With the broader audience comes the need to present data in a more approachable format. This has led to the broad adoption of data products being the delivery mechanism for information. In this episode Ranjith Raghunath shares his thoughts on how to build a strategy for the development, delivery, and evolution of data products. by Data Engineering Podcast
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