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Catherine Williams

Chief Data Officer, Candid. On 1 show, 1 appearance. The Shows tab opens the full record on each.

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Catherine Williams is the Chief Data Officer at Candid, leading data strategy and AI initiatives. She previously served as Chief Data Scientist at AppNexus and Vice President of Data & AI at Qualtrics.

What they said6 Shows1

Everything Catherine Williams said on any show that made the record, most notable first. Each card names its show and opens the statement there.

MAD Insight

Product teams lacking data science, engineering, or product management are unstable

“The data science product engineering trifecta was just a very, very powerful combination. And when you were lacking one, it didn't, it was unstable.”

Catherine Williams Nov 20, 2014 ▶ 20:11 Michael Rubenstein and Catherine Williams, App Nexus // Data Driven #31 // Nov 2014

MAD Assertion Not checkable as stated

AppNexus operated about 1,500 global bidding server instances

“These bidding instances, there's actually about 1500 of them spread in data centers around the world”

Catherine Williams Nov 20, 2014 ▶ 8:23 Michael Rubenstein and Catherine Williams, App Nexus // Data Driven #31 // Nov 2014

MAD Disclosure

AppNexus leveraged Google's trillion-word corpus for domain word-splitting algorithms

“The data here is the Google trillion word corpus, right, where they scrape the entire internet, look for the frequencies of all the different strings, including misspellings, right, and that basically gives you a probability of any given string being, like, a …”

Catherine Williams Nov 20, 2014 ▶ 13:52 Michael Rubenstein and Catherine Williams, App Nexus // Data Driven #31 // Nov 2014

MAD Assertion Not checkable as stated

AppNexus processes 30 billion daily impressions on a 16-node Hadoop cluster

“We have a 16 node Hadoop cluster currently, and I have on my proposed budget for 2015, a 200 node Hadoop cluster so that we can really get our hands on all that raw data of the thirty billion impressions we're transacting daily.”

Catherine Williams Nov 20, 2014 ▶ 14:48 Michael Rubenstein and Catherine Williams, App Nexus // Data Driven #31 // Nov 2014

MAD Assertion Not checkable as stated

AppNexus has no first-party data

“We don't have any first party data at all.”

Catherine Williams Nov 20, 2014 ▶ 17:13 Michael Rubenstein and Catherine Williams, App Nexus // Data Driven #31 // Nov 2014

MAD Disclosure

AppNexus previously relied on human auditors to detect adult content

“We had a team of human auditors who would literally just go look at websites and determine whether or not they were porn.”

Catherine Williams Nov 20, 2014 ▶ 11:02 Michael Rubenstein and Catherine Williams, App Nexus // Data Driven #31 // Nov 2014

One line per show, most statements first. The link opens Catherine's full record on that show: the calibration, argument clarity, speaking style and every statement made there.

Show	Role there	Eps	Statements	Record
MADLEDGER	Chief Data Officer, Candid	1	6	—	full record on the MAD Podcast →