A/B testing and growth analytics at Airbnb, building data science tools and metrics store with Nick Handel, the data scientist show#037

The Data Scientist Show

Nick Handel was a senior data scientist leading the launch of the data side of this Airbnb Trips and later built a team that designed aribnb’s end-to-end machine learning platform, bighead. Currently, he is the cofounder and CEO of Transform, he first centralized 'metrics store' that empowers data analysts to deliver insights. He was recognized as 30 under 30 by Forbes in 2018. If you like the show subscribe to the channel and give us a 5-star review. Subscribe to Daliana's newsletter on www.dalianaliu.com/ for more on data science.

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Highlights:

(00:00) intro and career journey

(00:10:58) common mistakes in A/B testing

(00:25:48) how to do A/B testing deep dives

(00:27:32) surprising A/B testing results

(00:29:18) facts vs opinions

(00:33:55) A/B testing best practices

(00:55:01) how he built a new data schema for Airbnb Trips

(01:00:43) how to collect data when building data science tools

(01:38:53) trend of data science tools