Technology evolution is a very common and natural process throughout human history. Some people like it while some people are hesitant. Despite attitudes towards technology evolution, new technology will eventually come. That is how technology trends advance, that is how quality of life advances and that is how human civilization advances. As a technology Read More
Ancestry.com Publishes Technical Report on data-driven technique for finding alternative name spellings. In this article we discuss the problem of finding alternative name spelling, an important component of name matching (part of the record linkage field). We started this project primarily because of real issues that we encountered while working on name matching for Read More
Interested in genealogy? Curious about DNA? Fascinated by the world of big data? If so, come check out my talk at the Global Big Data Conference on DNA day this Friday, April 25 at 4pmPT in the Santa Clara Convention Center! I’ll cover Jermline, our massively-scalable DNA matching application. I’ll talk about our business, give a run-through Read More
A couple of months ago I presented at the Big Data Innovation Summit in San Francisco along with Scott Sorensen, CTO at Ancestry.com . There we got a chance to talk about some of the ways Ancestry.com is handling big data. In the Data Science team we spend a lot of time working with raw data. Read More