GeoMonday 2015.4 - Shortening the Distance in Local Search

David Yu, [email protected]

Shortening the Distance in Local Search

“Big Data” “Machine Learning”

“Recommendation Engine” “Helene Fischer”

• Made Biotech Drugs• Bioinformatics Department• Genomics & Proteomics Data

Recommendations &The Netflix Prize

# items tech

Movies 18K C/C++/Java

Books 200K C++

Places 2m Hadoop

Demo #1

But….

This is only an improvement

Yelp & Foursquare are good enough

Rethinking….

Anything else we can do for users and local businesses?

I went back to my bioinformatics roots

Local Search Currently

Demo #2

In the future…..

Building out relationships between objects

Thank You! and I need help…

[email protected]