Evan Miller – Understanding Statistics with Visualization
From the July 28, 2014 SoMa Tech Talk series. Abstract: Evan Miller will be speaking about visually appealing ways to “supercharge” traditional descriptive visualizations with inferential statistics....
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Eng Retreat in Tahoe: Robots and Desolation
Within engineering, we like to have consensus on decisions, especially those that have significant and lasting import. So before we left for a multi-day retreat in Tahoe, the engineeering team asked...
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A romance of a single dimension: linear git history in practice
“I call our world Flatland, not because we call it so, but to make its nature clearer to you, my happy readers, who are privileged to live in Space.” (Edwin A. Abbott, Flatland) A linear commit...
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From the July 28, 2014 SoMa Tech Talk series. Abstract: As anyone with A/B testing experience can tell you, the humble A/B test is loaded with complexity and pitfalls. Seemingly basic questions of...
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Welcome Mark Schaaf
Mark hiking the John Muir Trail We’re excited to introduce Mark Schaaf, the newest member of our team. Mark is joining us as Thumbtack’s VP of Engineering. He previously was a Senior Engineering...
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