Sep 23–26, 2019

John Berryman
Software Developer, Eventbrite

John Berryman started out in the field of aerospace engineering, but soon found that he was more interested in math and software than in satellites and aircraft. He made the leap into software development, specializing in search and recommendation technologies. John’s a senior software engineer at Eventbrite, where he helps build Eventbrite’s event discovery platform. He also recently coauthored a tech book, Relevant Search, (Manning). The proceeds from the book have mostly paid for the coffee consumed while writing it.

Sessions

4:35pm–5:15pm Wednesday, September 25, 2019

Location: 3B - Expo Hall

Search logs + machine learning = autotagged inventory

Data Science, Machine Learning, & AI, Expo Hall

Secondary topics: Text and Language processing and analysis

John Berryman (Eventbrite)

Eventbrite is exploring a new machine learning approach that allows it to harvest data from customer search logs and automatically tag events based upon their content. John Berryman dives into the results and how they have allowed the company to provide users with a better inventory-browsing experience. Read more.