Ben Dodson
Data Scientist
Previously operations specialist at Google and consultant at Deloitte. Amateur skier, tango dancer, and foil fencer.
Published on May 20, 2019 (almost 6 years ago)
How Audience Adaptive Encoding Works
Mux recently announced our new Audience Adaptive Encoding (AAE). Check out this deep dive into how AAE works and why you should try it out.
Published on November 21, 2018 (over 6 years ago)
Video Analytics Series Part 1: Rebuffering
Mux receives over a billion video views each month through Mux Data, and we recently spent some time looking at the most important metrics, such as rebuffering percentage, time to first frame, and vide...
Published on October 3, 2018 (over 6 years ago)
How Our New Mux Data Scoring Works
We were recently excited to announce our new scoring update for Mux Data. Here is an in-depth look into how and why we decided to change our Viewer Experience Score for the better. Score... what is it...
Published on July 26, 2018 (almost 7 years ago)
ICML 2018: Trip Report
Mux just returned from an exciting week at the 35th International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML). This was our first year attending, and it was great to spend an immersive week in talks and work...
Published on April 25, 2018 (about 7 years ago)
Better Video Quality through Deep Learning
Updated 8/4/21: We hit pause on audience-adaptive encoding. Read more. When people watch videos online, their video quality is mostly dependent on their internet connection. Faster internet means bett...
Published on January 12, 2018 (over 7 years ago)
How We Used Machine Learning to win at HQ Trivia
For the past three months, half of us at Mux have been obsessed with HQ Trivia, while the other half silently regretted their Android purchases. When that HQ push notification hits at 12, the iPhones s...