NumPy for Data Scientists
NumPy is your loyal friend in Python you may never know you had, and this library helps make Data Science in Python possible.
Creating a ready-to-evolve front end
As engineers, we strive to ship code fast. This comes with a cost we have to pay later. UI and front end are often overlooked in that process, but investing a bit of effort into creating a ready-to-evolve front end can save us time and effort when our applications change.
Using Survival Analysis to understand customer retention
As a subscription business, lifetime value is a very important metric for us, and this metric underpins a lot of spending and prioritising decisions for us at tails.com.
boolrule 0.2.1
We've just pushed a patch release for boolrule (i.e. `true` and `false`) in expressions.
Growing Business Analytics on a Shoestring - Part 1
Like lots of fast growing tech startups, our data needs at Tails.com have changed significantly over the years. It's been a very fast journey where it's not always been obvious where to turn next.
From Mathematics to Data Science
Like many Data Scientists working in industry right now, I was previously an academic who at some point made the decision to leave academia and get a 'real job'.
Introducing boolrule
boolrule [https://github.com/tailsdotcom/boolrule] is an open source Boolean
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2016 Tech Business of the Year
Tails.com is a winner of the Tech Business of the Year Award 2016 in the UK startups awards.
Monitoring Codeship CI pipelines with BitBar
Most of the tails.com tech stack is deployed through CI/CD pipelines powered by Codeship. Deploying code to production is as simple as merging into a specific branch, and this coupled with our propensity for shipping early and often means we often have a lot of builds in flight throughout the day.