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Whether you are part of a fast growing startup or an established company, choosing what part of the product to focus on is absolutely crucial to the success of your venture. Above: Riley Newman In an ...

The data science team over at home-sharing platform Airbnb was able to increase the overall ratio of female employees on its team from 15 percent to 30 percent in 2015, with 47 percent of its new ...

Data-driven decision making is a practice in many commercial industries now. But especially the real estate industry is using data. Companies like Zillow or Redfin provide estimates of a given house ...

Tech companies, and increasingly even non-tech companies, are struggling with the fact that there are not enough trained data scientists to fill market demand. Every company has their own strategy for ...

In this column, Coursera President and Co-founder Daphne Koller asks Riley Newman, Airbnb’s head of data science, to share his thoughts on the interdisciplinary values of understanding and utilizing ...

Airbnb has grown exponentially since its founding in 2008 and is expected to soon go public in an initial public offering that would rank it among the world’s most valuable hotel companies. In fact, U ...

Murray Cox had been gathering data on Airbnb for over a year when he had his first breakthrough. It was December 2015, and the company, in an effort to be more transparent, had just released a trove ...