Google data scientists write unofficially on data analysis, forecasting, machine learning, and internal tooling.
Commenters praise the blog and often cite its post on replacing Sawzall with a Go-based DSL, and its advice on exploring data first.
Lately, I've been enjoying a lot of posts in this blog right here:
https://eugeneyan.com/writing
My company just hired some new VPs from Amazon, and the writings in that blog convey a bit of the Amazon WOW. It's pretty insightful stuff.
Also, many posts from Julia Evans :D
More concretely, here are a few blog posts I go back to occasionally:
https://doordash.engineering/2019/02/20/experiment-rigor-for-switchback-experiment-analysis/
https://www.unofficialgoogledatascience.com/2019/12/humans-in-loop-forecasting-integrating.html
https://www.unofficialgoogledatascience.com/2016/10/practical-advice-for-analysis-of-large.html
https://eugeneyan.com/writing/ml-design-docs/
https://eugeneyan.com/writing/what-i-do-before-a-data-science-project-to-ensure-success/#first-draw-the-map-to-the-destination-one-pager
https://www.fharrell.com/post/addvalue/
https://www.fharrell.com/post/stat-ml2/
Before you try any sort of ML, explore your data [1, 2]. Exploratory data analysis may very well tell you that there is absolutely no point in making a fancy predictive model at all. If a few heuristics get you 90% of the way to an optimal solution, then don't even bother to start on machine learning, unless that last 10% is going to provide significant value.
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exploratory_data_analysis
[2] From one of my mentors: http://www.unofficialgoogledatascience.com/2016/10/practical-advice-for-analysis-of-large.html
I guess you meant outside of google? Google's logs analysis is often done in "Lingo" which stands for Logs In Go. I assure you that logs analysis is very CPU bound.
http://www.unofficialgoogledatascience.com/2015/12/replacing-sawzall-case-study-in-domain.html
I love this blog. They had a great post describing a privacy preserving query proxy: http://www.unofficialgoogledatascience.com/2015/12/replacing-sawzall-case-study-in-domain.html
And this : http://www.unofficialgoogledatascience.com/2015/12/replacing-sawzall-case-study-in-domain.html replacing Sawzall with Golang :|