Co-authors: Ya Xu, Liz Morgan, and Thogori Karago Relationships matter, but to build them, you need to first make the right connections. Just over two and a half years ago, we started our WomenConnect events to provide an intimate space for women who work in technology to come together to build meaningful relationships and share best practices. Since then, we’ve...
Posts by Ya Xu
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- Women in Tech,
- Open Source,
- events
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Top Five Lessons from Running A/B Tests on the World's Largest Professional Network
Ya Xu November 10, 2015
We run thousands of experiments each year at LinkedIn. Thousands of features, big and small, have been launched, refined, or discarded through our robust A/B testing platform. As a result of these experiments, we have learned a tremendous amount about how to make our products better and our members happier. At the same time, we have accumulated knowledge on how...
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- lessons,
- A/B Testing,
- experimentation,
- T-REX
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Getting to Know Weitao Duan
Ya Xu September 8, 2015
Talent is LinkedIn’s number one operating priority and we have no shortage of talented individuals in technical roles across the company. These are the folks that create, build and maintain our platform, tools and features - as well as write the posts for this blog. We are featuring some of the people and personalities that make LinkedIn great. Name: Weitao Duan...
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- infrastructure,
- T-REX,
- engineering culture
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Why Experimentation is so Important for LinkedIn
Ya Xu September 3, 2015
Making data driven decisions through experimentation is an extremely important part of the culture at LinkedIn. It’s deeply ingrained...
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- T-REX,
- A/B Testing,
- data driven
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XLNT Platform: Driving A/B Testing at LinkedIn
Ya Xu August 22, 2014
A/B testing is an indispensable driver behind LinkedIn’s data culture. We run more than 200 experiments in parallel daily and that...
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- A/B Testing