The description of surge pricing on Uber’s website begins with the carefully crafted sentence: “Uber rates increase to ensure reliability when demand cannot be met by the number of drivers on the road.” What that really means is that fares are higher at the worst possible time. If it weren’t for surge pricing, Uber would be…

Check out Bitten Labs’ new white paper on how to repeatably identify top data science talent. The process has been informed by hiring processes at many organizations with effective data science groups, refined through several iterations, and tested with hundreds of applicants. The white paper is a significantly expanded version of our popular blog post. The…