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2 changes: 1 addition & 1 deletion _posts/2019-02-07-calculating-customer-lifetime-revenue.md
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Why LTR? (Lifetime Revenue)

When I joined the[ Data Science team](https://www.scribd.com/about/data_science) at[ Scribd](https://www.scribd.com/), my first project was to update a dashboard that our Marketing team uses to make ad-buying decisions. For all of our acquisition sources, this dashboard displays key indicators that we use to assess the future value of a new group of subscribers like: bill-through rate(% converting from a trial to a paid subscription), 1st day cancellation, etc. While these indicators are valuable and give our team guidance on where we should be investing our marketing dollars, they aren’t explicit signals of the future value of subscribers. You can imagine a high bill through rate not resulting in a high value group of subscribers if most of them cancel after using Scribd for only 1 month.
When I joined the[ Data Science team](https://www.scribd.com/careers) at[ Scribd](https://www.scribd.com/), my first project was to update a dashboard that our Marketing team uses to make ad-buying decisions. For all of our acquisition sources, this dashboard displays key indicators that we use to assess the future value of a new group of subscribers like: bill-through rate(% converting from a trial to a paid subscription), 1st day cancellation, etc. While these indicators are valuable and give our team guidance on where we should be investing our marketing dollars, they aren’t explicit signals of the future value of subscribers. You can imagine a high bill through rate not resulting in a high value group of subscribers if most of them cancel after using Scribd for only 1 month.

To truly solve this problem and empower our Marketing team to make data-driven decision about their spend, we needed a way to calculate the future value of the subscribers. Enter Lifetime Revenue (LTR)! Below is a fake version of our marketing dashboard that includes our LTR column, “Expected Lifetime Revenue Per New Signup”.

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2 changes: 1 addition & 1 deletion _posts/2019-03-04-experiments-with-seq2seq.md
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We found that the relationship to be roughly linear. (It’s possible that at some point the relationship becomes no longer linear, but we didn’t encounter that within the parameters of this experiment.)

This result can give you a very rough idea of how much data you will need for your seq2seq project. At Scribd, we use or have explored using seq2seq for a variety of projects, including query parsing, query tagging, and spelling correction. If working on one of these projects is something you think you might be interested in, go ahead and give us a holler at [https://www.scribd.com/about/data_science](https://www.scribd.com/about/data_science)
This result can give you a very rough idea of how much data you will need for your seq2seq project. At Scribd, we use or have explored using seq2seq for a variety of projects, including query parsing, query tagging, and spelling correction. If working on one of these projects is something you think you might be interested in, go ahead and give us a holler at [https://www.scribd.com/careers](https://www.scribd.com/careers)
4 changes: 2 additions & 2 deletions _posts/2019-08-28-real-time-data-platform.md
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One of the harder parts about building new platform infrastructure at a company
which has been around a while is figuring out exactly _where_ to
begin. At [Scribd](https://www.scribd.com/about/engineering) the company has
begin. At [Scribd](https://www.scribd.com/careers) the company has
built a good product and curated a large corpus of written content, but
where next? As I alluded to in [my previous
post](/blog/2019/platform-engineering-at-scribd.html) about the Platform
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conversations, both of which took less than an hour.

The first was with [Kevin Perko](https://www.linkedin.com/in/kperko) (KP), the head
of our [Data Science team](https://www.scribd.com/about/data_science). His team
of our [Data Science team](https://www.scribd.com/careers). His team
interacts the most with our current data platform (HDFS, Spark, Hive, etc); in
essence Data Science would be considered one of our customers. I asked some
variant of "what's wrong with the data infrastructure?" and KP unloaded what
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2 changes: 1 addition & 1 deletion _posts/2020-08-10-datadog-backup.md
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posts](https://tech.scribd.com/blog/category/core-infrastructure#posts).
If shipping metrics and managing cloudy things is up your alley, you just might
be the kind of person who'd love to work here, so [click
here](https://www.scribd.com/about/engineering) to review our open positions!
here](https://www.scribd.com/careers) to review our open positions!