Survival analysis is one of the most developed fields of statistical modeling, with many real-world applications. In the realm of mobile apps and games, retention is one of the initial focuses of the publisher once the app or game has been launched. And it remains a significant focus throughout most of the lifecycle of any endeavor.

Effectively bringing machine learning to production is one of the biggest challenges that data science teams today struggle with. As organizations embark on machine learning initiatives to derive value from their data and become more “AI-driven” or “data-driven”, it’s essential to find a faster and simpler way to productionize machine learning projects so that they can make business impact faster.

For decades, machine learning engineers have struggled to manage and automate ML pipelines in order to speed up model deployment in real business applications. Similar to how software developers leverage DevOps to increase efficiency and speed up release velocity, MLOps streamlines the ML development lifecycle by delivering automation, enabling collaboration across ML teams and improving the quality of ML models in production while addressing business requirements.