Hunch’s Taste Graph: The Infographic

THE EUER-EXPANDING TASTE GRAPH by hunch Hunch is building a 'Taste Graph' of the entire web, connecting every person on the web with their affinity for anything, from books to electronic gadgets to music, restaurants, fashion, games, or vacation spots. THE SOFTWARE THE HARDWARE Assembly was used since many computational cycles are done on large matrices which [1 9 13 The Hunch Taste Graph is built using proprietary 20 55 6 software written in C and Assembly. Hunch runs the Taste Graph on a super computer. overwhelm traditional linear algebra libraries. 48 TERABYTE OF MEMORY 27,000 PROCESSORS Lines of code went into the Taste Graph FLOATING POINT 100 BILLION OPERATIONS PER SECOND A PEAK INSIDE THE TASTE GRAPH URBANITE KIM FROM LONDON NEW YORK Hunch learns when two people like the same types of things, and then uses that knowledge to make better predictions. LADY GAGA JOHN IRVING FOODIE 6. (AFFINITY EDGE BETWEEN NODES) NODE (TEM OR USER Despite massive computing power, it takes 2 days for the Taste Graph to completely refresh. DAY TWO 500 MILLION PEOPLE • 200 MILLION ITEMS • 30 BILLION EDGES WHERE THE DATA comeS FROM "THAY QUESTIONns on HUNCH.Com 2 ITEM RATINGS ON HUNCH.Com LIKE DATA There are currently 2,000 THAYS (Teach Hunch About You) questions in the Hunch question pool. New THAYS are continuously added. Hunch draws upon the Taste Graph to make predicted ratings for each user, until the user submits an actual rating. When users link their Hunch accounts to other content sites, Hunch learns about their 'likes'. MORE THAN RATINGS 80 MILLION THE AVERAGE USER HAS ANSWERED HUNCH USERS HAVE PROVIDED MORE THAN BILLION 15 MILLION 113 THAYS FACEBOOK LIKES THAYS HAVE BEEN ANSWERED ON MORE THAN 200,000 Hunch also indexes public review data from retail sites, review sites, travel sites, and more. Sample THAY IN A SURVIVAL SITUATION, DO YOU THINK YOU'D BE INDIVIDUAL ITEMS ABLE TO CONSUME HUMAN FLESH? SAMPLE RECOMMENDATIONS of users said yes of users would look for another option LOST IN SPACE ***** CHECK-IN DATA 5 SOCIAL CONNECTIONS . OPEN API When users connect to Hunch from location-based services, the Taste Graph learns about their check-in preferences. When users connect to Hunch from social networks, the Taste Graph learns about their social connections. Anyone can use Hunch's API to upload data to the Taste Graph or get predictions from it. Applications make about 400 MILLION USERS 400.000 PTEALLS DAILY THE TASTE GRAPH INCLUDES 2 MILLION 20 BILLION FRIENDSHIPS VENUES There are FROM 2 MILLION 100 MILLION USERS 25.000 ANTHENTICATED ÜSERS OF THE API PEOPLE WHO CHECKED-IN 3 BILLION FOLLOWS Try it! hunch.com/developers JUST HOW BIG? How big is 30 billion connections? Here it is compared to some other impressive figures. Hunch can make very accurate predictions based solely on a Facebook or Twitter name. Try it! Hunch.com/goodies HUNCH TASTE GRAPH number of edges 30 BILLION COLD START Because Hunch propagates known data to make inferences about unknown data, it has solved the so-called "cold start" problem. TWITTER number of follows GRAPH THEORY There are more than 30 billion 'edges' (connections) in the graph between people and items. These connections represent the 'affinity' between a person and an item, as measured by likes, dislikes, ratings, check-ins, interactions, etc. The connections serve as the basis for Hunch's predictive ability. 4.5 BILLION GREAT WALL number of bricks 3.8 BILLION DNA number of pairs 3 BILLION MILKY WAY number of earth-like planets 2 BILLION Produced may 20, Stats for companies sther than Hunch are froim publici-audilable data including the websites of the respective companies. hunch Hunch Inc. O 2011