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Machine Learning Solving for Unobserved Data in a Regression Model Using a Simple Data Adjustment

Learn how our team optimized prep time estimates while overcoming censored data

Joe Harkman

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Improving Online Experiment Capacity by 4X with Parallelization and Increased Sensitivity

To speed up the development of new features we needed a way to increase our experiment capacity. Learn how we improved it by 4X

How DoorDash is Scaling its Data Platform to Delight Customers and Meet our Growing Demand

Learn the challenges and best practices to successfully growing a data platform organization

Leveraging Causal Modeling to Get More Value from Flat Experiment Results

Using Heterogeneous Treatment Effects to improve personalization

Retraining Machine Learning Models in the Wake of COVID-19

When the COVID-19 pandemic significantly changed how people took their meal, DoorDash had to retrain demand prediction machine learning models.

Supporting Rapid Product Iteration with an Experimentation Analysis Platform

DoorDash engineers built Curie, a new experimentation analysis platform, to better gauge the success of product experiments.

Using a Human-in-the-Loop to Overcome the Cold Start Problem in Menu Item Tagging

Learn how we built a classification model quickly, cheaply, and at scale

Optimizing DoorDash’s Marketing Spend with Machine Learning

Learn how we utilized cost curves to automate our marketing campaigns at scale

Enabling Efficient Machine Learning Model Serving by Minimizing Network Overheads with gRPC

Learn the challenges of reducing network overheads with gRPC optimizations

Meet Sibyl – DoorDash’s New Prediction Service – Learn about its Ideation, Implementation and Rollout

Learn how building a prediction service enables the utilization of ML models based on real-time data

Improving Experimental Power through Control Using Predictions as Covariate (CUPAC)

Too much varience can reducing experimental power. Learn how we solved this problem with our new CUPAC method

DoorDash’s ML Platform – The Beginning

Learn how we increased the scalability and productivity of the data science team by building a machine learning platform

Supercharging DoorDash’s Marketplace Decision-Making with Real-Time Knowledge

DoorDash is a dynamic logistics marketplace that serves three groups of customers: Merchant partners who prepare food or other deliverables, Dashers who carry the deliverables to their destinations, Consumers who savor a freshly prepared meal from a local restaurant or a bag of groceries from their local grocery store. For such a real-time platform as ...