Archives for airbnb

26 Jul

How Online Companies Are Tapping Into Object Detection To Improve User Experience 

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The accuracy of state-of-the-art object detection systems is often under scanner for seemingly obvious reasons. From unlocking the phone to self-driving cars, object detection is almost everywhere.  As computer vision applications grow in popularity, it has become crucial to keep their flaws in check or at least detect them in the first place. These flaws…

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06 Feb

How Airbnb’s Druid Platform Tackles The Big Data Problem

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Brian Chesky co-founded peer-to-peer room and home rental company Airbnb with Nathan Blecharczyk and Joe Gebbia in 2008. Now, almost 11 years later, Airbnb has been used by more than 300 million people in 81,000 cities in 191 countries. At Airbnb, dashboard analytics plays a crucial role in real-time tracking and monitoring of various aspects…

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31 Oct

The Story Of How Airbnb Implemented Neural Networks To Improve Their Search Feature

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Search capabilities are a big feature for any business website or app. A good search engine can bring new customers to relevant products and lead to better sales. The engineering team at Airbnb sees their search ranking algorithm as their biggest machine learning success story. The team tried gradient boosted decision tree model but the…

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31 Oct

The Story Of How Airbnb Implemented Neural Networks To Improve Their Search Feature

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Search capabilities are a big feature for any business website or app. A good search engine can bring new customers to relevant products and lead to better sales. The engineering team at Airbnb sees their search ranking algorithm as their biggest machine learning success story. The team tried gradient boosted decision tree model but the…

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