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Enriching Videos

data science

At Meltwater we are providing our customers with great tools to analyse news and social media, unlocking business critical insights. However all of this content is written text. Therefore some other forms of media remain unconquered. Formats that are becoming increasingly dominant in all online media. Today, we want to present our plan to conquer audio and video. Read the story

nh.js meetup - Welcoming all JavaScript Enthusiasts

meetup Manchester New Hampshire JavaScript

On October 14, 2015, Meltwater co-launched nh.js in conjunction with Thunderhead and Alexander Technology Group, nh.js is a meetup group for JavaScript programming enthusiasts in Manchester, New Hampshire. The group holds events at local startup incubator Alpha Loft and has thrived with regular monthly meetups, steadily increasing membership to just over 240...

Meltwater opens SHACK15 - data science co-working space in London

shack15 London

Meltwater is proud to present SHACK15, London’s first co-working space dedicated to data science startups. With the distinct advantage of Meltwater being such a global company, we are able to offer our members automatic access to a network of hot desks from Silicon Valley to Sydney via New York, Berlin, Stockholm and...

Meltwater announced as Finalist for the SIIA CODiE Awards

Today, we are very proud to announce that Meltwater was chosen as a finalist for the 2016 Software and Information Industry Association (SIIA) CODiE Awards in the category for Best Content Analytics Solution! The CODiE Awards are the industry’s only peer-reviewed awards program. To get to the finals, we had to demo...

NLP Meetup: How Kickborn reinvented NLP

meetup Stockholm

On 22nd of March, Meltwater’s Stockholm NLP Meetup hosted a session about the technological development in a startup company called Kickborn. In this meetup Harinder Bedi, the founder of Kickborn, described a cognitive information retrieval system that understands the intent of questions and provides answers to them. The algorithm of the Kickborm...

CD Meetup: Continuously Everything

CD meetup Gothenburg

On 3rd of March, Meltwater hosted a session of our Continous Delivery Meetup, with the fitting topic Continuously Everything. We hosted these sessions at our beautiful office at Kungsportsavenyen in the middle of Gothenburg. This time around we had three presenters from Meltwater and about 50 attendees from inside and outside the...

NLP Meetup: Clinical text retrieval

meetup Stockholm

On 17th of February, Meltwater’s Stockholm NLP Meetup hosted a session about clinical text retrieval, presented by Professor Hercules Dalianis from Stockholm University. In this talk, Professor Dalianis described different challenges to analyse clinical texts to facilitate doctors in Swedish healthcare entities for better diagnosis and treatment. It was quite fascinating to...

SF-Text Meetup at Meltwater

meetup San Francisco

On October 15th we proudly hosted SF-Text at our Meltwater HQ in San Francisco. SF-Text is a popular NLP themed meetup in the Bay Area. The event was well-attended (+70 people) with plenty of NLP professionals and experts in the audience. Our very own Babak Rasolzadeh (Director of Engineering, Data Science, Meltwater)...

Supercharging the Elasticsearch Percolator

Elasticsearch Lucene Meltwater

We recently decided to open source our high-performance batch-percolator plugin for Elasticsearch. This article tells the story of how and why it was developed, and also gives you some insight into the scalability and performance problems we face daily in our engineering team. Early 2014, we were in the midst of migrating...

Meltwater hosting Global Day of Coderetreat in Gothenburg on Nov 14, 2015

Meltwater Gothenburg hackdays

“Coderetreat is a day-long, intensive practice event, focusing on the fundamentals of software development and design.” - http://coderetreat.org/about “a day to celebrate passion and software craftsmanship” - http://globalday.coderetreat.org The Meltwater Engineers are very passionate about software craftsmanship so it was an easy decision to host and sponsor the inaugural #gdcr event in...