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Building a histogram of post reply count in SQL (number of posts with x replies, x+1 replies, etc). Building a table with a summary of feature usage per user every day (keep track of the last action by user and roll that up every day). Basic conditional probabilities (check out brilliant.org for their source of inspiration)
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Data Scientist

Interviewed at Meta

3.6
May 16, 2017

Building a histogram of post reply count in SQL (number of posts with x replies, x+1 replies, etc). Building a table with a summary of feature usage per user every day (keep track of the last action by user and roll that up every day). Basic conditional probabilities (check out brilliant.org for their source of inspiration)

How would you measure the health of Mentions, Facebook's app for celebrities? How can FB determine if it's worth it to keep using it? If a celebrity starts to use Mentions and begins interacting with their fans more, what part of the increase can be attributed to a celebrity using Mentions, and what part is just a celebrity wanting to get more involved in fan engagement?
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Data Scientist

Interviewed at Meta

3.6
Mar 29, 2017

How would you measure the health of Mentions, Facebook's app for celebrities? How can FB determine if it's worth it to keep using it? If a celebrity starts to use Mentions and begins interacting with their fans more, what part of the increase can be attributed to a celebrity using Mentions, and what part is just a celebrity wanting to get more involved in fan engagement?

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