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Impactful data science and
machine learning at BuzzFeed
BUZZFEED
Gilad Lotan | @gilgul
gilad.lotan@buzzfeed.com
News and entertainment
- 600 items per day
- 3.5M so far
- 10 platforms
- Top channels on
Snapchat discover
and YouTube
- Over 300M
subscribers
- Data collection
pipeline
Truly cross platform
The heart of our culture - data feedback loops
Humans Data Tools
Reporting Tools
On/Off-site Distribution
Personalization
Recommender Systems
A/B Testing (content, product)
Opportunity Sizing and Forecasting
User Segmentation
Data investigations and reporting
Translation and Adaptation Recommendations
1) We’re obsessed with giving
every piece of content a fair
opportunity to reach the right
audience.
Humans learning from dashboards
We invested heavily in tooling that
surfaces performance data to our
content creators, so they can then
interpret that data and learn what’s
engaging our audience (or what’s not)
Humans learning from dashboards
Translation
Recommendations
(using heuristics & logistic regression)
Humans learning from recommendations
Model by Lyle Smith, Ailin Fang
17 of the Best...
All the Reasons...
17 Reasons Why
A winner is chosen!
(much faster)
Editors choose options Variants are tested for CTR
Editors learn from what
thumbs are chosen and
adapt future thumbs
Model by Lucy Wang
Humans learning from A/B tests
FeedRanker
Internal service which
leverages machine learning
to rank & feature our most
engaging content
Image borrowed from Adam Lofting, Model by Lucy Wang
Uses a multi-armed bandit algorithm, which is
a common ML method
Machines that learn from human behavior
Recipe2Vec
Internal system that surfaces
similar recipes by learning
vectorized representations for
words in a corpus of recipes
Model by Meghan Heintz
Machines that learn content association
recipes with similar
preparations but
different flavor
profiles…
(smoothies v. boozy
bevvies)
Neural Networks to make publishing decisions
Promotion
recommendations
Internal system which leverages a neural
network to predict the Facebook page that an
unpublished item should be posted to
Model by Andrew Metersky & Lucy Wang
V1: Bag of words
classifier
Look At This Adorable Dog
Who Looks Like A Bear
16 Cows That Are Too
Friggin’ Cute For Words
Chili Dog Bread Ring
The hot dog
problem
Bidirectional
LSTM Network
chili dog bread ring
LST
M
LST
M
LST
M
LST
M
LST
M
LST
M
LST
M
LST
M
20
%
Relevance to
Animals Account
chili dog != animal
dog bread !=
animal
2) Our audience inhabits a
complex, polluted information
environment. Our role is to
help them navigate it, not
pretend it doesn’t exist.
"I started the site for an easy way to make
money," said a 17-year-old who runs a site with
four other people… “Here in Macedonia the
revenue from a small site is enough to afford
many things.”
…The more people who click through from
Facebook, the more money they earn from ads
on their website.
BuzzFeed News first covered #FakeNews beat
20
This is what fake followers look like
Mohd posted 71 comments to the same facebook post
Is he real?
Facebook comment manipulation (cyborgs)
Possible to approximate with a simple function
Jennifer commented 71 times on Tasty videos in the past month with a single
word: ‘yummy’
Is she real?
Fader Networks: Manipulating Images by Sliding Attributes -
NIPS 2017
https://github.com/facebookresearch/FaderNetworks
We are being manipulated
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ohmajJTcpNk
Face2Face: real-time face capture and reenactment
Thank you
gilad.lotan@buzzfeed.com
@gilgul

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Gilad Lotan @Buzzfeed

  • 1. 1 Impactful data science and machine learning at BuzzFeed BUZZFEED Gilad Lotan | @gilgul gilad.lotan@buzzfeed.com
  • 3. - 600 items per day - 3.5M so far - 10 platforms - Top channels on Snapchat discover and YouTube - Over 300M subscribers - Data collection pipeline Truly cross platform
  • 4. The heart of our culture - data feedback loops Humans Data Tools Reporting Tools On/Off-site Distribution Personalization Recommender Systems A/B Testing (content, product) Opportunity Sizing and Forecasting User Segmentation Data investigations and reporting Translation and Adaptation Recommendations
  • 5. 1) We’re obsessed with giving every piece of content a fair opportunity to reach the right audience.
  • 6. Humans learning from dashboards We invested heavily in tooling that surfaces performance data to our content creators, so they can then interpret that data and learn what’s engaging our audience (or what’s not)
  • 7. Humans learning from dashboards
  • 8. Translation Recommendations (using heuristics & logistic regression) Humans learning from recommendations Model by Lyle Smith, Ailin Fang
  • 9. 17 of the Best... All the Reasons... 17 Reasons Why A winner is chosen! (much faster) Editors choose options Variants are tested for CTR Editors learn from what thumbs are chosen and adapt future thumbs Model by Lucy Wang Humans learning from A/B tests
  • 10. FeedRanker Internal service which leverages machine learning to rank & feature our most engaging content Image borrowed from Adam Lofting, Model by Lucy Wang Uses a multi-armed bandit algorithm, which is a common ML method Machines that learn from human behavior
  • 11. Recipe2Vec Internal system that surfaces similar recipes by learning vectorized representations for words in a corpus of recipes Model by Meghan Heintz Machines that learn content association
  • 12.
  • 13. recipes with similar preparations but different flavor profiles… (smoothies v. boozy bevvies)
  • 14. Neural Networks to make publishing decisions Promotion recommendations Internal system which leverages a neural network to predict the Facebook page that an unpublished item should be posted to Model by Andrew Metersky & Lucy Wang
  • 15. V1: Bag of words classifier Look At This Adorable Dog Who Looks Like A Bear 16 Cows That Are Too Friggin’ Cute For Words Chili Dog Bread Ring The hot dog problem
  • 16. Bidirectional LSTM Network chili dog bread ring LST M LST M LST M LST M LST M LST M LST M LST M 20 % Relevance to Animals Account chili dog != animal dog bread != animal
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  • 18. 2) Our audience inhabits a complex, polluted information environment. Our role is to help them navigate it, not pretend it doesn’t exist.
  • 19. "I started the site for an easy way to make money," said a 17-year-old who runs a site with four other people… “Here in Macedonia the revenue from a small site is enough to afford many things.” …The more people who click through from Facebook, the more money they earn from ads on their website. BuzzFeed News first covered #FakeNews beat
  • 20. 20 This is what fake followers look like
  • 21. Mohd posted 71 comments to the same facebook post Is he real?
  • 22. Facebook comment manipulation (cyborgs) Possible to approximate with a simple function
  • 23. Jennifer commented 71 times on Tasty videos in the past month with a single word: ‘yummy’ Is she real?
  • 24. Fader Networks: Manipulating Images by Sliding Attributes - NIPS 2017 https://github.com/facebookresearch/FaderNetworks We are being manipulated https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ohmajJTcpNk Face2Face: real-time face capture and reenactment