As you casually scroll through a news feed, you may “like” a post here and there. “Liking” has become so second-nature that we don’t often think about what happens the minute you hit that “like” button. When we began considering building out our “likes” feature into a set of reactions on LinkedIn, it took time for me to understand how complex a “like” really is....

Co-authors: Krishnaram Kenthapadi, Thanh Tran, Mark Dietz, and Ian Koeppe Preserving privacy of users is a key requirement of web-scale data mining applications and systems such as web search, recommender systems, crowdsourced platforms, and analytics applications. With the growing appreciation of the impact of data breaches and comprehensive data regulations,...

Co-authors: Xuhong Zhang, Chenya Zhang, and Yiming Ma   Today, we are announcing a new open source project called Avro2TF. This project provides a scalable Spark-based mechanism to efficiently convert data into a format that can be readily consumed by TensorFlow. With this technology, developers can improve productivity by focusing on building models rather than...