Churn Prediction at Gousto — Gousto’s high retention rates are testament to the fact that our customers are our priority. Since our recent team restructure, the Activate Tribe is entirely responsible for customer retention and satisfaction at Gousto. The Data Science team in Activate work with a model which uses behavioural data to predict when…

I recently spoke on an alumni panel during Le Wagon’s Careers Week, where four recent graduates answered questions about how we navigated the early months post bootcamp and eventually landed our first coding jobs. When I was doing the bootcamp, I always found it really interesting to hear about people’s…

You know when you start learning something new and immediately consider yourself an expert? There’s a name for that. The Dunning-Kruger Effect is a cognitive bias where people overestimate their abilities. It usually refers to beginners who are unable to recognise their own ignorance or incompetence. The term was coined…

In March, Le Wagon hosted their first ever Hackathon. Despite the fact that I’d been coding non-stop for 10 weeks and had just finished an unexpectedly intense Careers Week, I decided to take part. ‘Careers Week will be chilled’, the organiser had promised. ‘The Hackathon will be fun!’ So at…