Google Scientist Jumps To LinkedIn To Work On Big Data

LinkedIn has scored a big talent win today, as Google Scientist and Tech Lead Daniel Tunkelang joins the professional social network to work on data initiatives (you can access Tunkelang's LinkedIn profile here.) According to Tunkelang's blog post announcing the new job opportunity, he will be joining the data scientist team at LinkedIn, working under Chief Scientist DJ Patil. Tunkelang writes that he will be working on "products and discover insights from a data collection," tackling the issues of "information extraction, matching, recommendation, social network analysis, and network visualization."

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