Waze @Google is a Big Data company.
We use data and complex analytics to gain insights and make decisions on a daily basis.
This presentations includes teasers and ideas for you based on real use cases from Waze
11. Machine Learning
“Machine Learning is concerned with computer
programs that automatically improve their
performance through experience. “
Herbert Simon
Turing Award 1975
Nobel Prize in Economics 1978
12. Machine Learning
“A breakthrough in machine learning would be worth
ten Microsofts” (Bill Gates, Chairman, Microsoft)
“Machine learning is the next Internet”
(Tony Tether, Director, DARPA)
“Machine learning is the hot new thing”
(John Hennessy, President, Stanford)
20. Irregular Events / Anomaly Detection
Major events, causing out of the ordinary traffic/road blocks etc’ affecting large
numbers of users.
21. Dangerous Places - Clustering
Find most dangerous areas / streets, using custom developed clustering algorithms
● Alert authorities / users
● Compare & share with 3rd parties (NYPD)
22. Server Distribution Optimisation
Calculate the optimal routing servers distribution according to geographical load.
● Better experience - faster response time
● Saves money - no need for redundant elastic scaling of servers
23. Text Mining - Topic Analysis
Topic 1 - ETA Topic 2 - Unusual Topic 3 - Share info Topic 4 - Reports Topic 5 - Jams Topic 6 -Voice
wazers usual road social still morgan
eta traffic driving drivers will ang
con stay info reporting update freeman
zona today using helped drive kanan
usando times area nearby delay voice
real clear realtime traffic add meter
tiempo slower sharing jam jammed kan
carretera accident soci drive near masuk
24. Text Mining - New Version Impressions
● Text analysis - stemming / stopword detection etc.
● Topic modeling
● Sentiment analysis
Waze V4 update :
● Good - “redesign”, ”smarter”, “cleaner”, “improved”
● Bad - “stuck”
Overall very positive score!