OpenTable

Offers: Principles in making a good deal better

Showing some of the challenges we faced on exposing offers to our users and avoid making them overly pronounced or disruptive to the existing experience

Offers: Principles in making a good deal better

Showing some of the challenges we faced on exposing offers to our users and avoid making them overly pronounced or disruptive to the existing experience

Mesos at Opentable

How we got started with Mesos: Pain-points in a hybrid environment and surviving the transition

Open Sauce at OpenTable

We used to produce mostly closed source and proprietary software; that's changed.

Open Sauce at OpenTable

We used to produce mostly closed source and proprietary software; that’s changed.

Using data science to create a dining expert

We can build expert knowledge of cities with our corpus of unstructured reviews

Using data science to create a dining expert

We can build expert knowledge of cities with our corpus of unstructured reviews

Put yourself in their shoes

Getting to know restaurant customers with the OpenTable product team

Put yourself in their shoes

Getting to know restaurant customers with the OpenTable product team

Navigating themes in restaurant reviews with Word Mover’s Distance

A new algorithm seems to provide a powerful way to navigate semantically related threads in restaurant reviews.

Navigating themes in restaurant reviews with Word Mover’s Distance

A new algorithm seems to provide a powerful way to navigate semantically related threads in restaurant reviews.

Mining data to power great dining experiences

The promise of data science for the restaurant industry

Mining a treasure trove of textual data

Diner reviews are a powerful tool in making better recommendations

Detecting service application pauses

Detecting and reporting lengthy periods of CPU starvation

Recommendation architecture

Personalized recommendations using machine learning