As per our daily routine, we in Bright engineering were recently presented with a problem, and went in search of an elegant solution. The situation: we wanted to display our Bright Score calculation results to our users as quickly as possible after the calculation was completed. Since our search algorithm and our scoring algorithm are […]
In order to build a good predictive model, a data scientist has a lot of things to consider. But something that often goes overlooked or undermentioned—likely because it’s not that glamorous—is cleaning the data. You want to build the best mathematical model that works for your data, but a step of tantamount importance is getting […]
It all started with, “Hey Anthony, since we’re launching in a few weeks we should probably make the Bright Score infrastructure scalable. We might get a few users.” Anthony, the CTO, wasn’t worried: “No problem — we’ll just use Rightscale. They recently released support for Softlayer (our hosting provider). Rightscale also supports Chef, so we […]
