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How he carved his own path at Airbnb, from data engineer to CEO of Mage - Tommy Dang - the data scientist show #056
The Data Scientist Show
Building Your Own Tools, From Scratch or Open Source?
I had a conviction that the history has shown us over time, very specialized skill sets, with the augmentation of cooling, becomes available to a wider audience. And so I saw this trend for machine learning as well. There's a huge appetite for companies, even early stage companies, have a trove of data. So there's just not enough people to build these models, to build these features, to make predictions on it. Either the non-technical folks, and provide a no-code tool, or target the technical folks with the low-code tool. A lot of engineers, they want to build their own tools. My advice is, do not reinvent the wheel, use as many
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