PyData Tel Aviv Meetup: Contextual Bandit for Pricing - Daniel Hen & Uri Goren

PyData Tel Aviv Meetup #30 6 July 2021 Sponsored and Hosted by Taboola https://www.meetup.com/PyData-Tel-Aviv/ Contextual bandits are commonly used for recommendation, in which each item is seen as a categorical variable. We extended the use of bandits for Real-time-bidding auction, by modeling the target variable as ordinal. In this talk we would cover experiments we took, and give a brief overview on Bandits www.pydata.org PyData is an educational program of NumFOCUS, a 501(c)3 non-profit organization in the United States. PyData provides a forum for the international community of users and developers of data analysis tools to share ideas and learn from each other. The global PyData network promotes discussion of best practices, new approaches, and emerging technologies for data management, processing, analytics, and visualization. PyData communities approach data science using many languages, including (but not limited to) Python, Julia, and R. Find a PyData chapter near you: meetup.com/pro/pydata 00:00 Welcome! 00:10 Help us add time stamps or captions to this video! See the description for details. Want to help add timestamps to our YouTube videos to help with discoverability? Find out more here: https://github.com/numfocus/YouTubeVi...