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Hands-On Artificial Intelligence for Search

by Devangini Patel
August 2018
Intermediate to advanced
124 pages
2h 47m
English
Packt Publishing
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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, will ...
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