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Criteo and the Advertising Ethics
An article by Zofia Trstanova and Renaud Bauvin When responding to the usual question ‘What do you do for a living?’, you tell someone that you work in online advertising, the reaction is often the same: ’So you are the ones with the annoying pop-ups I can’t close’ or ‘Oh, you are the ones showing…
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Open Roles at Criteo R&D
Interested in becoming part of our tech blog? Apply for a job at Criteo in Paris or Ann Arbor! You’ve been reading our tech blog for frequent updates and would like to join the crowd? You’re in luck because we are hiring! Check out June’s hot jobs in our Paris and Ann Arbor offices! Paris Analytics…
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An Insight into the Criteo AI Lab
An article by Morgane Goibert, Alberto Lumbreras & Flavian Vasile from Criteo The Criteo AI Lab is pioneering innovations in computational advertising. Within this center of scientific excellence, distributed across Paris, Grenoble, and Ann Arbor, our researchers and engineers deliver both fundamental and applied scientific leadership through published research, product innovations, and new technologies powering…
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Writing a Tech Blog Post — Tips and Tricks from the Criteo Engineers
Last year, we decided to take our Tech Blog to www.medium.com. With a lot of hard work from our writers, we had more success than we hoped for, being featured in the ranking of Top 44 French Engineering Blogs published on Toucan Toco in partnership with the guriosity project, with Criteo ranking #1. We are…
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Highlights from NeurIPS 2019
While the holiday season concludes and a brand-new year starts, we look back the incredible 2019 and to all the amazing things that happened and the ones we accomplished. Among others, last December we were back to NeurIPS, and we can’t wait to share all the cool things that we saw there. This year’s edition…
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Cloud Native 2019 took place in London and gather almost 200 hundred cloud practitioners.
Public or private cloud? Cloud Native 2019 took place in London and gather almost 200 hundred cloud practitioners. It has been an opportunity to exchange point of view on various topics, to extensively discuss testing in this context, and to share feedback on such technologies. Public or private cloud? This question was the topic of the…
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Highlights of RecSys 2019
Recommendation Systems, Deep Learning, User-Centric, Reproducibility and Multi-Task Authors: Romain Beaumont, Amine Benhalloum, Florian Courtial, Ugo Tanielian, Marina Vinyes, Pranjul Yadav Recsys 2019 took place in Copenhagen and with 909 attendees from around the world, it is the biggest edition so far. RecSys covers a wide variety of topics about recommender systems from their social…
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Highlights of KDD 2019
This year’s 25th edition focused on data science, data mining and large-scale data analytics. We couldn’t miss it, so 11 of us took a long-ride to attend the KDD conference at Anchorage, Alaska, from August 4 to August 8. KDD’19 is a 5 days conference, with 34 workshops, and 12 hands-on tutorials. KDD is organized…
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A summary of Scala Days 2019
The Scala language is used extensively at Criteo and the Recommendation codebase makes no exception to this rule. Our Spark jobs, which compute recommendations from catalogues of 6 billion products and logs of user actions coming in at 1 million entries per second, are written in Scala. We also use it for a number of…
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Data Science: real jobs beyond the buzz
It has been now almost 4 years since I joined Criteo and I still keep a vivid memory of my first day on the job. Hired to lead a team of 4 Data Scientists and being “given access to one of the world’s biggest datasets, and the computing power to exploit it” (as per the…