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Predict the Unpredictable – Podcast

How Data Science supports us to predict the unpredictable Just like for any store, forecasting is an important tool to support the business and its profitability. At bol.com we have worked on several major iterations of our forecast. One of the hosts worked on a large leap in forecast performance over 8 years ago. You can check some another leap we have made while listening to our podcast episode from May 2019 – nom more crystal ball for forecasting, Data Science it is. In this episode, we explore how we…

Experimentation – it starts with courage and curiosity

Peter Paul van de Beek, Peter Brouwers, on 29-01-2020
Category: Podcast Tags: Agile Innovation skills Experiment Experimentation Mindset

The two guests of our show work in our experimentation team. They set a target at the beginning of 2019: Our goal is to help hundreds of people at bol.com to run experiments (more effectively). So after a year of experimenting, we are very curious about what they learned and achieved. Let’s find out! Guests Denise Visser; Product Manager and Experiment evangelist Maarten Zwart; Software Architect and data enthusiast Hosts Peter Brouwers Peter Paul van de Beek Other things We received feedback on the audio quality. Sometimes it’s hard to…