Visualization Insight Tools for Netflix

In the Netflix Techblog, some good details.

Improving Netflix’s Operational Visibility with Real-Time Insight Tools
By Ranjit Mavinkurve, Justin Becker and Ben Christensen

For Netflix to be successful, we have to be vigilant in supporting the tens of millions of connected devices that are used by our 40+ million members throughout 40+ countries. These members consume more than one billion hours of content every month and account for nearly a third of the downstream Internet traffic in North America during peak hours.

From an operational perspective, our system environments at Netflix are large, complex, and highly distributed. And at our scale, humans cannot continuously monitor the status of all of our systems. To maintain high availability across such a complicated system, and to help us continuously improve the experience for our customers, it is critical for us to have exceptional tools coupled with intelligent analysis to proactively detect and communicate system faults and identify areas of improvement. 

In this post, we will talk about our plans to build a new set of insight tools and systems that create grea er visibility into our increasingly complicated and evolving world.  .... " 

Watson Personality Insights

Just today I happened to be reintroduced to Personality Insights on the Watson Developer Cloud.  Had taken an earlier look.   Basic version is free to work with.   Can any provide me concrete examples of its use in the wild?   A personality classifier / transducer for the millions?   Marketing tool?  Python code connects .   " ...  Personality Insights extracts and analyzes a spectrum of personality attributes to help discover actionable insights about people and entities, and in turn guides end users to highly personalized interactions. The service outputs personality characteristics that are divided into three dimensions: the Big 5, Values, and Needs. While some services are contextually specific depending on the domain model and content, Personality Insights only requires a minimum of 3500+ words of any text. ... " 

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