American Tire Distributors

Nov 20, 2020

ATDWheels Event Spotlights the Hottest in Wheels

Here’s a Sneak Peek at the New Styles from TIS, Dropstars, Drifz & more As many begin to wrap up the year, ATDWheels is gearing up for the hottest new wheel styles coming in 2021. These styles were on display during the first-ever, fully interactive ATDWheels Virtual Open House, that…

Automotive

2 min read

ATDWheels Event Spotlights the Hottest in Wheels

Oct 9, 2020

A Comprehensive Introduction to RxJS

In this series, Rob, a senior machine-learning solutions architect from our advance analytics team, will introduce you to RxJS (a Typescript library that he loves) and share the problem space that it fills and its key features. …

Rxjs

10 min read

Sep 27, 2020

Effortless REST with Flask, Part 2

In Part 1, we created the base scaffolding for a production-ready Flask API. But what’s an API without data, and if we’re serving sensitive data, how do we go about securing it? Effortless REST with Flask, Part 2 is all about data and security. Follow along step-by-step as we connect…

Python

7 min read

Sep 15, 2020

My Journey into Data Science

A first-hand look at American Tire Distributors, Data Science Accelerator program — At American Tire Distributors (ATD), we’re committed to helping our associates be at their best by making sure they have the resources needed to take charge of their learning and professional development. One example of this is the Data Science Accelerator (DSA) program. …

Data Science

6 min read

Aug 5, 2020

Effortless REST with Flask, Part 1

As an industry leader, American Tire Distributors (ATD), delivers tires and wheels to thousands of customers a day and meeting our customers’ expectations requires us to be as efficient with our time as possible. Meet David, a principal software engineer, who’s a member of our analytics team. During a presentation…

API

8 min read

Jul 10, 2020

Going from Zero to Data Scientist in 8-Months

Meet the Inaugural Data Science Accelerator Program Graduates — At American Tire Distributors (ATD), whether it’s spending 3–5 minutes a day on our micro-learning platform or attending a peer-led lunch and learn, our associates are always embracing our culture of knowledge. At the end of 2019, our analytics team Launched the ATD Data Science Accelerator Program which provided our…

Data Analytics

6 min read

Going from Zero to Data Scientist in 8-Months

Apr 17, 2020

Route Optimization: Leveraging the power of Google Cloud and OSRM to analyze delivery routes in Python

Welcome back to our Route Optimization blog series. In Part 1 we showed you how to get Google Cloud and OSRM set up. In Part 2 of this series we explore how to use the route and table services to analyze delivery routes in Python. …

Route Optimization

12 min read

Feb 24, 2020

Route Optimization: Getting Google Cloud and OSRM set up

Looking for some hands-on experience using data analysis to analyze logistics problems? Well look no further, we’re excited to introduce our Route Optimization blog series. In this series we’ll explore the data science behind the one of the industry’s largest supply chain. In Part 1, we show you how to…

Route Optimization

11 min read

Feb 2, 2020

10++ Commandments of Data Science Modeling

Our analytics team at ATD is comprised of a wide variety of data scientists, data engineers, and software developers. Although we come from different backgrounds, we all touch the data science modeling component at some point or another in our daily work. To make sure we avoid situations where model…

Data Science

13 min read

Dec 5, 2019

Dealing with Large Data Sets Using BigQuery

Our Analytics Team needs to adapt quickly when it comes to changes on a project, which is why they’ve been relying on the Google Cloud Platform (GCP) services. The GCP enables our Analytics Team to implement many of its projects to the business seamlessly and is a key part of…

Google Cloud Platform

3 min read

Dealing with Large Data Sets Using BigQuery