Interested in understanding the challenges of processing large amounts of unstructured data in a big company? Read this case study, featuring
- the issue (impacting Google, eBay and Amazon and many others today, with billions of dollars at stake)
- the technical solution (indeed, an easy one, it's a simple statistical problem)
- the people / HR / business organization issue that makes it a hard problem
A case study like this one is very typical, and not just related to search engines. It's not solved just by hiring the right statistician or data miner. Indeed if you read my solution you don't need to hire anyone, maybe you need to fire some people instead. But it's definitely a people / organization issue.
Read story at http://bit.ly/1d9CCpx
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