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Building a Backtesting Service to Measure Model Performance at Uber-scale

We built a backtesting service to better assess financial forecast model error rates, facilitating improved forecast performance and decision making.

Science at Uber: Making a Real-world Impact with Data Science

Suzette Puente, Uber Data Science Manager, shares how she applies her graduate work in statistics to forecast traffic patterns and generate better routes.

Data Science at Scale: A Conversation with Uber’s Fran Bell

We spoke to Data Science Director Fran Bell about machine learning at Uber and what she finds most challenging—and rewarding—about her work.

How to Get a Better GAN (Almost) for Free: Introducing the Metropolis-Hastings GAN

Metropolis-Hastings Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs) leverage the discriminator to pick better samples from the generator after ML model training is done.

Announcing the 2019 Uber AI Residency

The Uber AI Residency is a 12-month training program for academics and professionals interested in becoming an AI researcher with Uber AI Labs or Uber ATG.

My Journey from Working as a Fabric Weaver in Ethiopia to Becoming a Software...

Samuel Zemedkun reflects on his immigrant experience and how his part-time driving through the Uber platform funded his education and inspired his decision to join the company.

Scaling Machine Learning at Uber with Michelangelo

Uber built Michelangelo, our machine learning platform, in 2015. Three years later, we reflect our journey to scaling ML at Uber and lessons learned along the way.

Forecasting at Uber: An Introduction

In this article, we provide a general overview of how our teams leverage forecasting to build better products and maintain the health of the Uber marketplace.

M4 Forecasting Competition: Introducing a New Hybrid ES-RNN Model

With a solid margin, Uber senior data scientist Slawek Smyl won the M4 Competition with his hybrid Exponential Smoothing-Recurrent Neural Networks (ES-RNN) forecasting method.

Engineering a Job-based Forecasting Workflow for Observability Anomaly Detection

Uber’s Observability Applications team overhauled our anomaly detection platform’s workflow to enable the intuitive and performant backfilling of forecasts, paving the way for more intelligent alerting.

Implementing Model-Agnosticism in Uber’s Real-Time Anomaly Detection Platform

Uber Engineering extended our anomaly detection platform's ability to integrate new forecast models, allowing this critical on-call service to scale to meet more complex use cases.

Omphalos, Uber’s Parallel and Language-Extensible Time Series Backtesting Tool

Uber Engineering created Omphalos, our new backtesting framework, to enable efficient and reliable comparison of forecasting models across languages.

Engineering Uncertainty Estimation in Neural Networks for Time Series Prediction at Uber

Uber Engineering introduces a new Bayesian neural network architecture that more accurately forecasts time series predictions and uncertainty estimations.

Presenting the Engineering Behind Uber at Our Technology Day

A daylong event at Uber’s Palo Alto office, sponsored by our LadyEng group, showcased the technical work across Uber Engineering as well as the people who are leading and building these projects. Here are some of the resulting presentations.

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