Hi All,
A few updates: First, things are going extremely smoothly at JADS where we are setting up a new Data Science research institute. We are happy to be a part of it, and to be collaborating with some great minds (such as Prof. Dr. Eric Postma). Also, we will be sharing new work on StreamingBandit during the Social Sciences and the Internet Conference (check here, and here is an abstract of the talk). Finally, we will be presenting a poster at the ISBA 2016 conference. Check out the poster here.
We also have some cool recent work that I would like to share. First, Robin van Emden did a pretty cool visualization of how Lock in Feedback (LiFt) works in two dimensions; (not that LiFt is implemented as a policy in StreamingBandit). Check this out:
LiFT animation I from Robin van Emden on Vimeo.
We think its pretty cool!
Also, up and coming, some really cool work by Shuai on distributing media expenditure over different channels, and some really cool stuff by Jules implementing a) simulation functionality into StreamingBandit, and b) creating an offline evaluation methods for continuum bandit problems.
Cheers.