Scaling knowledge dissemination at Airbnb - how we turned ad-hoc analysis, scripts, and notebooks into actionable insights for an organization.
The Knowledge Repository is a set of tools that manage a centralized and curated collection of “Knowledge Posts” along with a web interface to view and disseminate them. Knowledge Posts are a shared abstraction for all sorts of technical and non-technical documents such as Jupyter and R Markdown notebooks, Markdown documents, Google Documents, presentations, and so on. It was created at Airbnb to solve the problem of scaling technical knowledge dissemination within a growing team of data scientists, as sharing progress via one-off emails, Google documents, slideshows and git repositories was becoming increasingly impractical. It has since grown to be an indispensable part of the way we share knowledge not just between data scientists, but also with the rest of the company.
In this talk, we will introduce the Knowledge Repository from the perspectives of: the consumer, the contributor, the deployer, and the developer. The outline of the talk is as follows: