Ancestry recently announced the creation of a Tech and Product User Group in Utah with the goal of encouraging collaboration between companies across the Wasatch Front to solve difficult and interesting technology and science problems. This group is intended for technologist, scientist, and product professionals who want to learn, network and grow together. Topics will Read More
Once again, Ancestry was selected as a 2015 NewCo. SF host company. Come join us at our San Francisco office on Tuesday, October 6 from 3:00-4:00 pm PT to hear from Cathy Petti, Chief Health Officer and Stephen Baloglu, Senior Director of Marketing for DNA and Health. In this session titled “Spit and Discover— Get Read More
Ancestry was selected as a 2014 NewCo.SF host company. Come join us at our San Francisco office on Thursday, Sept. 11 at 4:30pm PT to hear from Eric Shoup, EVP of Product at Ancestry.com. He will provide an inside look at the unique and meaningful business of family history and the tech, science, and product Read More
Data analytics and visualization is everywhere we turn. We find it in websites, newspaper articles, smartphone apps, and more. With so many options for data tools it can seem overwhelming at times to know what will work and what won’t for your data goals. At Ancestry.com we constantly evolve to find or create the tools Read More
A career journey is a curvy path that usually takes unexpected turns, and as a designer in the growing field of UX, it’s sometimes a struggle to find the right environment to foster great design discussions with fellow UXers. One of the things I’ve enjoyed most at Ancestry.com is the great team who have helped Read More
Interest in direct-to-consumer DNA testing has grown dramatically in the past few years. When you’re measuring more than 700,000 DNA markers for each individual, how do you analyze all that data across a rapidly growing database, while providing actionable results for your customers? At the Hadoop Summit next week,
Utah Code Camp 2014 came and went this weekend. More than 850 people attended and with more than 70 sessions, it was the largest code camp in Utah history. Thanks to Pat, Craig, Nate, and Kerry of Utah Geek Events for putting it all on. Ancestry.com participated in a pretty big way. In addition to the Read More
Headed to SXSW Interactive? Join EVP of Product, Eric Shoup and Senior Director of Product at Tableau, Francois Ajenstat, for an engaging Core Conversation about how using big data can tell personalized stories. Big Data is a game changer for storytelling. Too often, the data we pull is cold, factual and dehumanized. Technologies can now Read More
Nowadays security vulnerabilities are often published in a short, vague and incomplete way. We can hardly tell what the vulnerability is, what consequence it has, and what could mitigate it. This presentation will help uncover the details of a vulnerability and show you how to use decompiling tools to find the vulnerable code, how to Read More
Jeremy Pollack, a lead engineer at Ancestry.com, answers questions on the technical backend of AncestryDNA in a video interview with InfoQ. The interview took place after his presentation with Bill Yetman on scaling AncestryDNA using Hadoop and HBase at QConSF in 2013. Check it out!