Topic Modelling in Travel

Note on location: please use the main entrance of the building situated at The Bank building ("The Bank entrance", whatever that means); this is next to the reception entrance on the canal. Also, please update your meetup profile to reflect your full, real life name, as this is required by the building security.

We are happy to be able to schedule the first meetup for 2015 already. We welcome Athanasios Noulas who is going to talk about topic modelling in travel.

Agenda:
18.00: Arrive, eat, drink

19.00: Introduction

19.15: Talk by Athanasios Noulas, Data Scientist @ Booking.com

Topic Modelling in TravelThe presentation discusses the application of Topic Modelling on Travel Data. Booking.com collects millions of diverse endorsements from its users, for example, London endorsed for Shopping, Brussels for Chocolate, Athens for Museums and Barcelona for its nightlife. These endorsements are organised using Latent Dirichlet Allocation to a set of topics and used to personalise the Email-Marketing campaign of Booking.com and improve the browsing of the website through country-specific menus. The results from experiments on more than 40 million unique users demonstrate the conceptual value of the discovered topics.

20.15: More drinks and chat time

??.??: Everybody out