The Ledger

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Bloomberg cannot rely on large-scale A/B testing or usage data
“So a lot of the luxury that other companies have, like doing large scale machine learning based on massive amount of usage data, or doing large scale A-B testing to decide which model works better, doesn't work for us.”
Parth Vasa May 24, 2017 ▶ 2:12 How to Train Your Search Engine // Parth Vasa, Bloomberg (FirstMark's Data Driven)
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Bloomberg contributed code to the last fifteen Apache Solr releases
“I think about the last 15, 15 or 16 versions of Solr have had some sort of our code in it”
Parth Vasa May 24, 2017 ▶ 4:55 How to Train Your Search Engine // Parth Vasa, Bloomberg (FirstMark's Data Driven)
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Bloomberg Terminal search volume reaches the low hundreds of thousands daily
“I think on a good day we are talking about low 100,000.”
Parth Vasa May 24, 2017 ▶ 16:43 How to Train Your Search Engine // Parth Vasa, Bloomberg (FirstMark's Data Driven)
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