Tuesday 28th February, 2012
3:30pm to 4:00pm
We examine the effectiveness of a statistical technique known as survival analysis to optimize the cache time-to-live for hotel rates in a hotel rate cache. We describe how we collect and prepare nearly a billion records per day utilizing MongoDB and Hadoop. Finally, we show how this analysis is improving the operation of our hotel rate cache.
4pm The Data Science Debate by Michael E. Driscoll, DJ Patil, Toby Segaran, Drew Conway, Peter Skomoroch, Amy Heineike and Pete Warden
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