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Image via Wikipedia Large part of Zemanta’s language analysis depends on structured data extracted from English Wikipedia. Since a lot of in-text links also come from this source, it’s important that we keep our internal extract as up to date as possible. Wikipedia is a very dynamic site, with hundreds of edits per day and [...]

This was my second time ACM SF Bay Data Mining camp. The first thing to notice – it was big, 400 people or so hosted by eBay in San Jose. Image via CrunchBase The venue was much more hospitable to barcamp type of event than Hacker’s Dojo last time. The participants are a weird mix [...]

Image via Wikipedia Small companies are not supposed to do data warehousing. Apart from being prohibitively expensive if done right, it is also very dangerous when done wrong. Thus, most startups will employ one of many ways to do data shacking. Data in shacks is by no means safe, but if one is willing to [...]

Note: Reposted from personal blog of Marko Samastur, head of frontend development at Zemanta. Goal of Zemanta widget has always been to present contextually relevant information to text being written and to enable writers to add that information easily in places of their choice. We want to do this in as unobtrusive manner as possible, [...]

At Zemanta we’re big fans of computers going an extra mile for us lazy humans. Ever increasing processing power and abundance of implicit and explicit data are going to provide fuel for this mile. Services that had looked impossible only a few years ago will become reality. Ones helping us book a restaurant, find the [...]