Question Answering vs. Search at Night Shift Development, Inc

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Every query a user writes originates from a business question. Learn some powerful ways to use Elasticsearch for question answering and hear how ClearQuery can be used to expose intelligence and actionable insights.

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Question Answering With Elasticsearch
Tim Tutt
October 25, 2018

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About Me
$ whoami
{
Name: “Tim Tutt”,
Occupation: [“CEO”,”Cofounder”,”Software Developer”,”Data Ninja”],
Company: “Night Shift Development, Inc.”,
Twitter: “@timftutt”,
Hobbies: [“Poker”,“Football”,“Data Exploitation”]
}

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Search, Discovery, & Data Analytics
“Big Data” buzzword compliant background

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Data In A Search Context
20%
searching for data needed
Time Wasted
Relevancy
Ranking
Boolean
Searches
Keyword Search
*Source: McKinsey

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Every query
starts with a
business
question

$9 The Dragon Finder Query $ curl –GET https://dragonstone_server:9200/locations/_search –d ‘ { "query":{ "term": { "tracker_type": { "value": "DRAGON" } } }, "sort": [ { "time_seen": { "order": "desc" } } ] }’$

$10 { . . . "hits": { "total": 33066, "max_score": 1, "hits": [ { "_index": "locations", "_type": "doc", "_id": "156433634", "_score": 1, "_source": { "tracker_type": "DRAGON", "tracker_name": “Rhaegal", “time_seen”: "2018-09-26T17:35:23.000Z", "latitude": -1.281233, "longitude": 36.837780, "GeoPoint": { "lon": “36.837780“, "lat": "—1.281233" } } }, . . . ] } }$

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Any sufficiently advanced
technology is indistinguishable
from magic
-Arthur C. Clarke

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• TeleApp
• “Secure” Communications
• Communications Metadata
• Geospatial Information

$23 Let’s Start Simple { "size": 0, "aggs": { “top_countries”:{ "terms": { "field": “country”, "size": 5 } } } }$

Number of Devices by Country
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$25 Identifying Influencers { "size": 0, "query": { "term": { "countryDigraph": { "value": "SY" } } }, "aggs": { "top_influencers": { "terms": { "field": "addressBook", "size": 5$

Top 5 Influencers Based On Address Book
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$27 Aggregation Inception { . . . "aggs": { "recipient": { "terms": { "field": "recipient", "size": 5 }, "aggs": { "unique_contacts": { "cardinality": { "field": "originator" } } } } } }$

Top 5 Influencers Based On Communications
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$29 O Users, Where Art Thou? { . . . "aggs": { "area": { "geohash_grid": { "field": "location", "precision": 3 }, "aggs": { "centroid": { "geo_centroid": { "field": "location" } } } } } }$

$31 Dream Within A Dream… Within A Dream { . . . "aggs": { "contact_by_month": { "date_histogram": { "field": "date", "interval": "month" }, "aggs": { "influencer": { "terms": { "field": "originator", "size": 5 }, "aggs": { "unique_contacts": { "cardinality": { "field": “recipient" } } } } . . .$

Number Of Unique Contacts By Influencer Per Month

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More Questions
• How many users are we gaining per month by country?
• What is the monthly active users trend from last month to this one?
• Are there users that aren’t on the latest version of the app?
• What is the average call length of our users?
Verifying The Hypothesis

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All The Questions
• Is there a correlation between call length and number of calls?
• Are there SMS messages that are similar to this one?
• Are there users that have similar address books to this one?
• Alert me when any users contacted an influencer.
Plenty For Free

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Barely Scratching The Surface
Use The Stack….Luke?

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Reach Out
$ contact
{
name: “Tim Tutt”,
urls: [“www.clearquery.io","www.nightshiftdevelopment.com"],
emails: [“tim@clearquery.io", “tim@nsdtech.io"],
Twitter: “@timftutt”
}

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Conclusions
• Elasticsearch is more than just search
• End users want answers to their questions not data
• Model your data for the questions you want answered
• Empower your users to answer questions

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Day 2 - Intro to UiPath Studio Fundamentals

Question Answering vs. Search at Night Shift Development, Inc

1. 1 Question Answering With Elasticsearch Tim Tutt October 25, 2018

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3. 3 About Me $ whoami { Name: “Tim Tutt”, Occupation: [“CEO”,”Cofounder”,”Software Developer”,”Data Ninja”], Company: “Night Shift Development, Inc.”, Twitter: “@timftutt”, Hobbies: [“Poker”,“Football”,“Data Exploitation”] }

4. 4 Search, Discovery, & Data Analytics “Big Data” buzzword compliant background

5. 5 Data In A Search Context 20% searching for data needed Time Wasted Relevancy Ranking Boolean Searches Keyword Search *Source: McKinsey

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7. 7 QUESTION ANSWERING

8. 8 Every query starts with a business question

9. 9 The Dragon Finder Query $ curl –GET https://dragonstone_server:9200/locations/_search –d ‘ { "query":{ "term": { "tracker_type": { "value": "DRAGON" } } }, "sort": [ { "time_seen": { "order": "desc" } } ] }’

10. 10 { . . . "hits": { "total": 33066, "max_score": 1, "hits": [ { "_index": "locations", "_type": "doc", "_id": "156433634", "_score": 1, "_source": { "tracker_type": "DRAGON", "tracker_name": “Rhaegal", “time_seen”: "2018-09-26T17:35:23.000Z", "latitude": -1.281233, "longitude": 36.837780, "GeoPoint": { "lon": “36.837780“, "lat": "—1.281233" } } }, . . . ] } }

11. DRAGONS FOUND WHERE ARE MY DRAGONS?!

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14. CONVERSATIONAL EXPERIENCE

15. 15 Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic -Arthur C. Clarke

16. 16 Facebook Graph Search

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18. 18 START WITH THE QUESTIONS

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20. 20 • TeleApp • “Secure” Communications • Communications Metadata • Geospatial Information

21. Morning Coffee

22. 22 How do we increase user engagement?

23. 23 Let’s Start Simple { "size": 0, "aggs": { “top_countries”:{ "terms": { "field": “country”, "size": 5 } } } }

24. Number of Devices by Country 0 1500 3000 4500 6000 Syria Turkey United Kingdom France Libya

25. 25 Identifying Influencers { "size": 0, "query": { "term": { "countryDigraph": { "value": "SY" } } }, "aggs": { "top_influencers": { "terms": { "field": "addressBook", "size": 5

26. Top 5 Influencers Based On Address Book 0 200 400 600 800 905616193853 905616136129 963922703945 33675035702 905067756634

27. 27 Aggregation Inception { . . . "aggs": { "recipient": { "terms": { "field": "recipient", "size": 5 }, "aggs": { "unique_contacts": { "cardinality": { "field": "originator" } } } } } }

28. Top 5 Influencers Based On Communications 905616111674 93755299984 963922573348 963965430751 963960215753

29. 29 O Users, Where Art Thou? { . . . "aggs": { "area": { "geohash_grid": { "field": "location", "precision": 3 }, "aggs": { "centroid": { "geo_centroid": { "field": "location" } } } } } }

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31. 31 Dream Within A Dream… Within A Dream { . . . "aggs": { "contact_by_month": { "date_histogram": { "field": "date", "interval": "month" }, "aggs": { "influencer": { "terms": { "field": "originator", "size": 5 }, "aggs": { "unique_contacts": { "cardinality": { "field": “recipient" } } } } . . .

32. Number Of Unique Contacts By Influencer Per Month

33. 33 More Questions • How many users are we gaining per month by country? • What is the monthly active users trend from last month to this one? • Are there users that aren’t on the latest version of the app? • What is the average call length of our users? Verifying The Hypothesis

34. 34 All The Questions • Is there a correlation between call length and number of calls? • Are there SMS messages that are similar to this one? • Are there users that have similar address books to this one? • Alert me when any users contacted an influencer. Plenty For Free

35. 35 Barely Scratching The Surface Use The Stack….Luke?

36. 36 No Single Path

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42. 42 Reach Out $ contact { name: “Tim Tutt”, urls: [“www.clearquery.io","www.nightshiftdevelopment.com"], emails: [“tim@clearquery.io", “tim@nsdtech.io"], Twitter: “@timftutt” }

43. 43 Conclusions • Elasticsearch is more than just search • End users want answers to their questions not data • Model your data for the questions you want answered • Empower your users to answer questions

44. 44 Thank you

45. Backup Slides

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