LinkedIn

With over 100 million users representing over 200 countries around the world, LinkedIn is a fast-growing professional networking site that allows members to create business contacts, search for jobs, and find potential clients. Individuals have the ability to create their own professional profile that can be viewed by others in their network, and also view the profiles of their own contacts.
Location: Mountain View, CA

LinkedIn – Crowdsourcing Series by Vitaly Gordon and Patrick Philips

Aug 272013
 

In this talk and Patrick Philips of LinkedIn will present how the LinkedIn data science team hacks data science using sophisticated data mining and crowdsourcing techniques to leverage the data they already have and create the data that’s missing. This talk was recorded at SF Data Mining meetup at Trulia.

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May 022013
 

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LinkedIn: A/B Testing on Social Networks

Apr 022013
 

Dr. Christian Posse was the last panelist at the recent Controlled Experimentation (A/B Testing) Meetup at Microsoft. In this talk, Christian shares some of the problems he’s seen in the social network field. Not a single piece of code, algorithm, feature, or user experience goes out without A/B Testing. He discusses their development of a system of hashing functions over at LinkedIn that allow them to run millions of A/B tests concurrently without interactions between them.

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