Earlier this year, the Technology team at Quid participated in the second Quidathon. The two day event was particularly memorable as it was the last bit of innovation in our old office. As with each Quidathon, there are only two rules: learn something new and have fun! Projects can range anywhere from implementing prototypes of new features, to exploring alternative technologies. We saw sixteen projects this time. Here are a few: Visual Search: Explored an alternative workflow for our product by combining the search and visualization aspects together. Users were able to instantly generate a network from their search allowing for quick iteration and exploration. Sharable Quid: Project began by providing the ability to share Quid layouts through embeddable images and eventually resulted in a fully interactive, annotated slideshow of insights users could share on blogs and social media sites. Explicit Netgen: At Quid we excel at uncovering implicit relationships between unstructured text documents. The goal of this project was to explore the explicit relationships between entities. For instance, which investors have invested in the same companies and what does the corporate board membership landscape look like? The team implemented an explicit network generator which incorporated steps to prune connections […]
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Search at Quid is recognized as one of the most valuable yet challenging areas within our product. It serves as the vehicle through which our users first engage with the product, and also serves as an integral part in helping our users derive insight. The results from a user search are fed to both our network generation and clustering algorithms, as well as the beautiful visualizations described in previous blog posts. Suggested terms are just one of the ways we enhance the search experience for our users, enabling the creation of more complex queries faster. This post will be the first in a series of blogs highlighting some of the unique challenges faced by Quid’s Platform Search team. In this post we will give a brief peek into how we approach suggested terms at Quid. The Use Case Every search engine these days, from Facebook to Google, provides some form of suggestions. Users have come to both expect and rely on this functionality as an extension of search. For Quid, this meant let’s not reinvent the wheel, but let’s also make sure our suggestions serve the correct function within our application. Our use case involved solving for the following: * Low […]
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