What do Data Scientists mean by “Scaling”?

harlan@harris.name (Harlan Harris) — Fri, 09 Jun 2017 00:00:00 +0000

This post was originally published on Medium

Occasionally when chatting with other data scientists, especially with others who are interested in integrating predictive models into production software system, the word “scaling” comes up.

Not this. Although some West Coast data scientists are into this kind of scaling too.

I think this is a great question, but it’s a little underspecified. There seem to be at least three qualitatively different notions of “scaling” in data science, and it’s worth the effort to clarify each of them, and address how people tackle them.

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What do Data Scientists mean by “Scaling”?