https://nyghtowl.com/tags/change.org/ Recent content in Change.org on Nyghtowl Hugo en-us <a href="https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">CC BY-NC-SA 4.0</a> Tue, 17 Feb 2015 09:49:19 +0000 https://nyghtowl.com/posts/2015/02/targeting-email-with-random-forest-at-change-org/ Tue, 17 Feb 2015 09:49:19 +0000 https://nyghtowl.com/posts/2015/02/targeting-email-with-random-forest-at-change-org/ <p>Last fall, a couple of my colleagues (Kristiane Skiolmen, Scott Lau) and I presented Change’s machine learning email optimization approach as a lecture in <a href="http://hci.stanford.edu/courses/cs547/speaker.php?date=2014-10-10">Stanford’s Human Computer Interaction Semina</a>r for CS grad students.</p> <p>The video gives an overview of how Change.org uses email to drive petition engagement from the business and social perspective to the specific technical optimization we made. It starts with an overview of Change and examples of petitions that have literally improved and saved lives.</p> https://nyghtowl.com/posts/2014/08/2014-summer-full-time-data-science-work/ Sun, 31 Aug 2014 12:30:00 +0000 https://nyghtowl.com/posts/2014/08/2014-summer-full-time-data-science-work/ <p>For the last three months I have been working at Change.org as a data scientist and engineer. Its been a great experience so far and I’m blown away that this is where I landed after starting this journey a year plus ago.</p> <p><strong>Impostor Syndrome</strong><br> I’ve coached others going through moving into engineering about how to believe in themselves and they are smarter than they think. I totally get that you want to fake the confidence till you get there. Don’t be cocky just be resolved to figure stuff out.</p>