Hello everyone! My name is Joone, and I am a new Software Engineer at Diffbot where I own the renderability and performance of the rendering farm here. For many years, I worked on web engines such as Gecko, WebKit and Chromium at Samsung and Intel Open Source Technology Center. Currently, I am pursuing a new adventure with […]
Welcome Dimitris Kontokostas – Software Engineer
Hello there! I am Dimitris, and I am a new Software Engineer at Diffbot! As the name implies, I am Greek. In particular, I am from the northern part of the mainland (far away from the beautiful beaches). I hold a degree in Electronics & Computer Engineering from the Technical University of Crete, a MSc in Web Science from Aristotle University […]
Welcome Julia Wiedmann – Machine Learning Engineer (Research)
Hi there! My name is Julia and I am a Machine Learning Research Engineer at Diffbot. Born and raised in Vienna, Austria, I moved to London to study Business. While I enjoyed my degree, I realized I was much more interested in technology, so I taught myself enough coding and math to qualify for […]
Welcome Lorenzo Torres – Technical Sourcer
I received my Bachelor’s Degree from University of Southern California (Fight On!) and then became a food truck driver and manager for a waffle dessert company in Pasadena, CA called Waffles de Liege. After 3 years, I felt that I wasn’t doing anything fulfilling and realized that I wanted to make an impact and difference […]
Welcome Paramita Mirza – Machine Learning Engineer Intern
Hello there! I’m Paramita (sounds similar to ‘parameter’) and I’m excited to be part of the Relation Extraction research team at Diffbot. I received my PhD degree from the University of Trento/FBK-ICT in spring 2016. Under the supervision of Sara Tonelli, my PhD research focused on extracting temporal and causal relations between events from […]
Diffbot State of Machine Learning Report – 2018
In what will likely be the first of many reports from the team here at Diffbot, we wanted to start with a topic near and dear to our (silicon) hearts: machine learning. Using the Diffbot Knowledge Graph, and in only a matter of hours, we conducted the single largest survey of machine learning skills ever […]
Turn Existing Customer Data into Fresh Marketing Opportunities with Knowledge Graph
I wanted to use our own tech and show that you can cross-reference your sales data with the 10+ billion entities stored in Diffbot Knowledge Graph, to find marketing opportunities with a little #KnowledgeHack. I wasn’t disappointed with what I found. Because the Diffbot Knowledge Graph (KG) focuses on people, companies, and location data, I […]
Introducing the Diffbot Knowledge Graph
Meet the largest database of human knowledge ever created: Diffbot Knowledge Graph Diffbot is pleased to announce the launch of a new product: Diffbot Knowledge Graph. What is the Knowledge Graph? Eight years ago, Diffbot revolutionized web data extraction with AI data extractors (AI:X). Now, Diffbot is set to disrupt how businesses interact with data from the web again […]
The Ultimate Guide to Product and Pricing Data
Today there are more products being sold online that there are humans on earth by a factor 100 times. Amazon alone has more than 400,000 product pages, each with multiple variations such as size, color, and shape — each with its own price, reviews, descriptions, and a host of other data points. Imagine If you […]
What is Product Data?
Every now and then it’s important to get back to basics and ask a question which seems obvious, because sometimes those questions have hidden depths. The question “What Is Product Data?” is one of those I recently asked myself, and it led me down a mini-rabbit hole. The basic definition of a product is: “A […]