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Meltwater Partners with Milaap to Support Indian Covid Relief

Meltwater Partners with Milaap to Support Indian Covid Relief

india covid donations

With so many of our own employees and their families impacted by the recent wave of Covid cases and deaths in India, mPowered, Meltwater’s employee-led diversity and inclusion group decided to take matters into their own hands and created a micro-donation site to raise money to specifically address the oxygen shortage in...

Interview: Geek Out with Meltwater on NLP

Interview: Geek Out with Meltwater on NLP

NLP AI sentiment analysis interview

Our very own Tim Furche, Director of Data Science at Meltwater, was interviewed by swordandthescript.com. They discussed topics such as the relationship between NLP and artificial intelligence (AI), the value of NLP to PR, as well as the enhancements that Meltwater has recently made to our NLP. For the full story: Geek...

Drone CI at Scale

Drone CI at Scale

drone Open Source Foundation continuous integration

Drone is a powerful open source continuous integration tool which we have been running as an internal service to Meltwater’s engineers. During the past two years we have seen the service adopted by the majority of development teams, to where we currently run over 1,200 pipelines per day on average. In this...

How to Run a Remote Unconference

How to Run a Remote Unconference

unconference remote collaboration

For three days in June, 238 people from Meltwater Product and Engineering organized and participated in our first remote unconference. The event featured 118 sessions focused on sharing knowledge, training, and problem solving. The event received an overwhelmingly positive response from the people that attended. In this blog post we take a...

Improving Record Linking for our Knowledge Graph (Part 2)

Improving Record Linking for our Knowledge Graph (Part 2)

data science machine learning clustering entity resolution knowledge graph KG record linking

Meltwater recently released a new product feature called Signals, which helps our customers to identify business-critical events. In a previous post we introduced the concept of record linking, and presented our first approach for merging information from multiple sources for our Knowledge Graph. In this second post, we share how we improved...

The Record Linking Pipeline for our Knowledge Graph (Part 1)

The Record Linking Pipeline for our Knowledge Graph (Part 1)

data science machine learning clustering entity resolution knowledge graph KG record linking

Meltwater recently released a new product feature called Signals, which helps our customers to identify business-critical events. One of the technical systems powering these Signals is a custom-built Knowledge Graph. In this post we explain how we created a record linking service that utilizes machine learning and big data tactics to cluster...

Let's Talk about Feelings!

Let's Talk about Feelings!

Agile collaboration remote work team building

The Meltwater Engineering teams have always been doing a lot of remote collaboration, due to the distributed nature of our company. Still, we have to get used to the work-from-home situation where we cannot even meet the colleagues in our own offices. In this post Niall Burkley from our middleware team shares...