Scott Sorensen

4 statements across 1 episodes · 1 bullish · 0 bearish · 1 people on the record · first statement Jan 16, 2014 by Scott Sorensen · across every show →

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Jan 16, 2014 positive
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Entity extraction elevated Ancestry's worst-performing data collections into its top 10
“It took what was some of our worst performing collections out of our 30,000, ah, collections, and put some of those collections into our top 10 best, ah, best collections.”
Scott Sorensen Jan 16, 2014 ▶ 9:35 Scott Sorensen, CTO of Ancestry.com // Data Driven 19 // October 2013 (Hosted by FirstMark Capital)
Jan 16, 2014
Insight
Granting academics access to large datasets creates a data science recruiting pipeline
“If you have a large data set and can make it available for academic research, then you could create yourself a pipeline of potentially good data science candidates because they know how to deal with large amounts of data, but they also know your data pretty we…”
Scott Sorensen Jan 16, 2014 ▶ 22:42 Scott Sorensen, CTO of Ancestry.com // Data Driven 19 // October 2013 (Hosted by FirstMark Capital)
Jan 16, 2014
Insight
Technical architecture mirrors organizational structure, requiring coordinated team and system decoupling
“It's uncanny how technical architecture follows an organization, and so if you want to decouple systems, you have to decouple the organization. If you want tightly, ah, integrated, if you want something tightly integrated, you have to tightly integrate the org…”
Scott Sorensen Jan 16, 2014 ▶ 21:52 Scott Sorensen, CTO of Ancestry.com // Data Driven 19 // October 2013 (Hosted by FirstMark Capital)
Jan 16, 2014 neutral
Insight
Predictive machine learning models are useless if they cannot inform interventions
“One of the key learnings was that just because something's predictive doesn't mean that it's actionable.”
Scott Sorensen Jan 16, 2014 ▶ 8:25 Scott Sorensen, CTO of Ancestry.com // Data Driven 19 // October 2013 (Hosted by FirstMark Capital)
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