Adam Laiacano

I'm a data engineer at tumblr and this is my blog. I write mostly about personal projects, data science, R/python, and various curiosities. You can read more about me here if you'd like.

  1. About Me

    I am from Massachusetts and currently live in Brooklyn, NY. I’m the data scientist at Tumblr, working on the Search & Discovery team.

    I built Sifter, a framework for A/B and multi-armed bandit testing, and contributed a chapter to Bad Data Handbook, published by O’Reilly Media in 2012.

    You can also find me at these places:

    Talks

    I’ve spoken about things a few times. Here are some of them:

    Big Boulder | June 2013 | Boulder, CO
    A panel called “Data Scientist and Social Data” with data scientists from Twitter, Pinterest and Gnip.

    Big Data Techcon Conference | April 2013 | Boston, MA
    Keynote talk about designing products with data analysis in mind.

    NYC Data Science Meetup | March 2013 | NYC
    “Data at Tumblr” overview of the analytics stack at Tumblr. 

    DataGotham Conference | September 2012 | NYC
    A panel about being the first Data Scientist at a startup, with Roberto Medri (Etsy) and Fred Benenson (Kickstarter). Moderated by Hilary Mason (bitly).

    The picture up there was taken at the DataKind/NYC Parks DataDive.
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