Experiences with Big Data and Learning What’s Worth Keeping
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Experiences with Big Data and
Learning What’s Worth KeepingRoger Liew, CTO Orbitz Worldwide
Wolfram Data Summit 2011
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Launched in 2001
Over 160 million bookings
7th Largest seller of travel in the world
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How did Orbitz end up with big data?
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Optimizing Hotel Sorting
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The Data We Collected Did Not Meet Our Research Needs
• Top clicked links• Top paths through site• Top referrers• Top bounce pages• Path conversion• Browser type• OS version• Geographic distribution• …
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AggregateConsumer behavior
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We Have Two Distinct Databases Serving Different Constituents
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Transactional Data (e.g. bookings)
Data Warehouse
Aggregated Non-Transactional Data
(e.g. searches)
Data Warehouse
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Hadoop technology and economics allow us to do things we couldn’t do before
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Our New Infrastructure Allows Us to Record and Process User Activity at the Individual Level
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Transactional Data (e.g. bookings)
Data Warehouse
Detailed Non-Transactional Data (What Each User Sees and Clicks)
Hadoop
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Detailed events
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Recommendations For You
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Orbitz World
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Safari Users Seem to be Interested in More Expensive Hotels
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Historical Prices From a Given Origin
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Simple Price Predictions
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Our goal is a unified view of the data, allowing us to use the power of our existing tools for reporting and analysis
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We Can Begin to solve business questions
• Answer how customers move between marketing channels
• Identify transactions attributed to a marketing channel that are not truly incremental
• Anticipate customer needs
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We’re Dealing With a Few Challenges
• Most of these efforts are driven by technology
• It’s batch oriented and simplistically controlled
• The challenge now is to unlock the value in this data by making it more available to the rest of the organization
• What is worth keeping
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The pace of data collection has outpaced growth curve of storage and processing
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What’s Worth Keeping
What’s Hot?• Raw data / source data• Intentional data
What’s Not• System metrics• (Most) Application logs• Incidental data
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Keep These Things in Mind When Dealing with Big Data
• Create a universal key • Always keep source data• Data Scientists like SQL• Operationalize your bleeding edge infrastructure• It’s difficult to share data with third parties• Challenge assumptions and older lessons learned• Fast evolving technology space that’s challenging to
keep up with
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