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Hands-On Artificial Intelligence for Search

You're reading from   Hands-On Artificial Intelligence for Search Building intelligent applications and perform enterprise searches

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Product type Paperback
Published in Aug 2018
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781789611151
Length 124 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Devangini Patel Devangini Patel
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Understanding the LinkedIn connection feature

As you know, LinkedIn is a social network, and users are connected to one another through first- or second-degree connections. In order to better understand this concept, use the following diagram as a reference:

Figure 1

Suppose that I want to find an acquaintance named Jill and connect with her. When I go to her profile, I find that she is a second-degree connection, which means that we have a mutual colleague. Let's look at how this degree is computed. To do so, we will create a connection tree:

  1. We start with the profile node, Dev, and add it to the connection tree:
Figure 2
  1. Now, I will find my colleagues and add them beneath my node. So, I add Ali and Tom beneath the Dev node:
Figure 3
  1. Now, for both Ali and Tom, I find their colleagues and add them beneath their nodes. So, under Ali, I add Dev, Seth, and Ram, and under...
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