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  • Our Approach to Research and A/B Testing

    December 7, 2022

    We are constantly striving to improve the experience on LinkedIn for our members and customers, with research and experimentation, such as A/B Testing, playing a key role in that work. Nearly a decade ago, I discussed the importance of these techniques in our journey to create economic opportunity for every member of the global workforce. Today we have a strong...

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    DeText: A deep NLP framework for intelligent text understanding

    July 28, 2020

    Co-authors: Weiwei Guo, Xiaowei Liu, Sida Wang, Huiji Gao, and Bo Long Natural language processing (NLP) technologies are widely deployed to process rich natural language text data for search and recommender systems. Achieving high-quality search and recommendation results requires that information, such as user queries and documents, be processed and understood...

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    Bringing Project Every Member to life: Open sourcing our Spark inequality A/B testing library

    May 26, 2020

    Co-authors: Guillaume Saint-Jacques, Stuart Ambler Last month on this blog, we introduced how we are building inclusive products through A/B testing, something we internally call Project Every Member, and discussed the novel application of inequality A/B testing using the Atkinson index and the use of this technique in the product design process at LinkedIn....

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    Understanding dwell time to improve LinkedIn feed ranking

    May 12, 2020

    Co-authors: Siddharth Dangi, Johnson Jia, Manas Somaiya, and Ying Xuan The LinkedIn feed is the cornerstone of the member experience....

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    Building inclusive products through A/B testing

    March 31, 2020

    Co-authors: Guillaume Saint-Jacques, Amir Sepehri, Nicole Li, and Igor Perisic Introduction Previously on this blog, we’ve shared...

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    How we mapped the “skills genome” of emerging jobs

    December 10, 2019

    In today’s newly-published Emerging Jobs Report, we introduce the “skills genome methodology” to highlight the unique skills for...