Junling Hu

You’ve heard before on this blog about the difference between products and items on eBay: the former uses a well-defined structure to describe product information, the latter allows a seller to enter free-form text for describing what’s for sale.

The San Francisco Bay Area Chapter of ACM, the Association for Computing Machinery, is holding its next data mining camp on Saturday, Nov 13.  The event will be hosted by eBay on our San Jose North Campus (2161 N First St, San Jose, CA 95131).

In the last 15 years, eBay grew from a simple website for online auctions to a full-scale e-commerce enterprise that processes petabytes of data to create a better shopping experience.