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Save engineering time on your data warehouse pipeline

Data  / Product Updates Feb 5 2019

Save engineering time on your data warehouse pipeline

We’ve released a connector that sends data from Mixpanel to Amazon Redshift Spectrum, Google BigQuery, Snowflake, Google Cloud Storage and Amazon S3. In this post, we’ll outline how this can save you time and engineering resources, and why our customers call it . . .

Automatic Insights at Mixpanel: past, present and future

Mixpanel Updates  / Product Updates Sep 27 2018

Automatic Insights at Mixpanel: past, present and future

Two years ago, we realized that the number of new Mixpanel users who were sending us events to track had dropped 10%. We did some digging and saw that the open rate of our welcome email had also gone down . . .

Mixpanel Office Hours with Coinbase Recap

Customer Stories Jul 20 2018

Mixpanel Office Hours with Coinbase Recap

2017 was the year cryptocurrency went mainstream. Amid the growing pains, as digital currency empires rose and fell, Coinbase has stood up for stability and order. As Director of Data Science and Risk at Coinbase, Soups’ responsibility is to make . . .

Everything you wanted to know about data science but were afraid to ask

Data Feb 22 2018

Everything you wanted to know about data science but were afraid to ask

Many of us have come to expect that our favorite retailers, personal finance apps, media outlets, and social media platforms will treat us like individuals, predicting our preferences and anticipating our needs. To deliver these personalized experiences – and avoid . . .

Data Science at Instacart means using unorthodox solutions to get an edge

Data Jan 16 2018

Data Science at Instacart means using unorthodox solutions to get an edge

Given a list of destinations, what is the shortest possible route that a traveling salesman can take to reach all of them? Seems simple? This is known to computer scientists as the traveling salesman problem, and it’s NP-hard, which for . . .

Why an Airbnb data scientist does actual scientific experiments

Data Nov 21 2017

Why an Airbnb data scientist does actual scientific experiments

Webster’s Dictionary defines trust as: “Confidence; a reliance or resting of the mind on the integrity, veracity, justice, friendship or other sound principle of another person,” or at least that’s what I say it does. There are factors that affect . . .

Data Elixir’s Lon Riesberg on developing a career in data science

Data Jun 13 2017

Data Elixir’s Lon Riesberg on developing a career in data science

From a computer scientist, to wilderness school teacher, to a data expert at NASA, the man behind the Data Elixir newsletter holds invaluable career advice – and not just on what to read.


What’s better than an aha moment? Mixpanel’s machine learning team found out

Product Apr 13 2017

What’s better than an aha moment? Mixpanel’s machine learning team found out

The aha moment is a mythic point in a product’s life when users stop being wary and start becoming addicted. In Facebook’s salad days, the company “figured out” that if they could compel users to make seven friends in 10 . . .

Mixtape: February 17th, 2017

Data Feb 17 2017

Mixtape: February 17th, 2017

In this week's Mixtape, we look at bringing data into the enterprise, killing friction in products, and how your salary stacks up

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