Chris Dowsett
Director of Data and Insights at Spotify
Chris Dowsett is the director of data science and consumer insights at Spotify. Dr. Dowsett has been working in data science analytics and decision science since 2004 and previously held positions at Instagram, Intuit and Spaceship, among many others. He earned a Ph.D. from the University of Southern Queensland where he researched how to improve the effectiveness of data use in business decision making.
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Feb 03, 2023
MongoDB is an open-source, document-oriented NoSQL database designed to handle large amounts of data and provide fast performance.
Feb 03, 2023
Stablecoins are cryptocurrencies that have their value tied to another currency, commodity or a financial algorithm. Here’s how they work.
Dec 22, 2022
A data pipeline is a series of data processing steps. A data pipeline might move a data set from one data storage location to another data storage location.
Dec 21, 2022
A data lake is a digital storage area where businesses hold structured and unstructured data including social media data, log files, emails, images and videos.
Dec 21, 2022
Business intelligence (BI) provides insights that guide business decisions and business monitoring while taking advantage of growing volumes of data stored by organizations.
Dec 07, 2022
A database is a systematic way of storing information so data can be accessed, analyzed, transformed, updated and moved with efficiency.
Jul 12, 2022
Our decision science team delivered an automated experience for customers and saved hundreds of thousands of dollars in staff time. Here’s how.
Jul 05, 2022
Data scientists and decision scientists do very different, though equally important, work. Here’s how to tell the difference.
Jun 28, 2022
Marketing analysts should take note of the cognitive bias known as selection effect. Unchecked, it can lead to false positives and bad investments.