Our first year open sourcing machine learning

On a wet and windy day in October 2014, Team Seldon was sitting on Brighton Beach, discussing the bigger picture of what we could achieve. We had come a long way over the previous three years; every month we were serving content recommendations to over a hundreds million people. However, we believed that if we continued to ship a black box solution we would increasingly face obstacles to user adoption by enterprises. Machine learning technology was becoming increasingly commoditized, and new applications were, and continue to be, both widely developed and adopted. Through the mist that had settled over Brighton Beach the bigger picture of what we could achieve became clear -- democratising machine learning.