Articles by John Kristian
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There are over 1 million groups on LinkedIn and millions of members join these groups every week. When working with this volume of data, we ran into an interesting problem: how can we rank group discussions so that the most “interesting” ones appear at the top? What algorithm could handle the huge stream of activity – new discussions, comments, likes, views, follows and shares – to produce an order that would work for active and inactive groups as well as for active and inactive members?
- Topics:
- Engineering,
- Groups
