The document outlines Netflix's data science principles aimed at achieving speed and scalability, highlighting components such as simplicity, accessibility, and specialization. It emphasizes the importance of a diverse team including data scientists, engineers, and analysts, as well as a culture of freedom and responsibility. Additionally, it mentions Netflix's significant content spend in 2018 and resources for further information.

1. DATA SCIENCE AT NETFLIX
Principles for
Speed & Scale
MICHELLE UFFORD
REV 2019

7. 148.9 million
Q1 2019 subscriber count

9. 15%
of the
total downstream traffic
across the entire
INTERNET

12. billboard
row categories,
row order
titles,
title ordering

16. Systems &
Tooling.
Components of Scalability.

19. Simplicity
and / or
Flexibility.
Components of Scalability.

24. Accessibility.
Components of Scalability.

31. Specialization.
Components of Scalability.

32. Full-stack unicorn.

33. Dream team of specialists.

34. data
scientists
data
engineers
data viz
engineers
quantitative
analysts
product
managers
research
scientists
analytics
engineers
executivessoftware
engineers
algorithm
engineers
Data Products
Data Insights
business
analysts
technical
pgm mgr
INSIGHTS
DATA
ML
scientists
Business
&
Product

35. Product

36. Product Content Studio
Finance Marketing Personalization

37. Autonomy.
Components of Scalability.

38. Content.$12 billion
2018 content spend

45. [1]
[2]
SETTINGS
< INJECT ETL SCRIPT >
[3] RUN AUDITS
[4] PUBLISH
INPUT PARAMS
ERROR MSG & LOGS
EVALUATION RESULTS
EVENT LOG
alert
service

48. The Paved Path.

49. Culture.
Components of Scalability.

53. Netflix Culture:
Freedom & Responsibility

57. Thank you!
techblog.netflix.com
research.netflix.com
jobs.netflix.com/culture
@NetflixData
linkedin.com/in/mufford @MichelleUfford