Evgeniya Sukhodolskaya - Data Advocate, Toloka - Data at the core of all the cool ML Vector Podcast

Toloka’s support for Academia: grants and educator partnerships
https://toloka.ai/collaboration-with-educators-form
https://toloka.ai/research-grants-form
These are pages leading to them:
https://toloka.ai/academy/education-partnerships
https://toloka.ai/grants
Topics:
00:00 Intro
01:25 Jenny’s path from graduating in ML to a Data Advocate role
07:50 What goes into the labeling process with Toloka
11:27 How to prepare data for labeling and design tasks
16:01 Jenny’s take on why Relevancy needs more data in addition to clicks in Search
18:23 Dmitry plays the Devil’s Advocate for a moment
22:41 Implicit signals vs user behavior and offline A/B testing
26:54 Dmitry goes back to advocating for good search practices
27:42 Flower search as a concrete example of labeling for relevancy
39:12 NDCG, ERR as ranking quality metrics
44:27 Cross-annotator agreement, perfect list for NDCG and Aggregations
47:17 On measuring and ensuring the quality of annotators with honeypots
54:48 Deep-dive into aggregations
59:55 Bias in data, SERP, labeling and A/B tests
1:16:10 Is unbiased data attainable?
1:23:20 Announcements
This episode on YouTube: https://youtu.be/Xsw9vPFqGf4
Podcast design: Saurabh Rai: https://twitter.com/srvbhr