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OSCON 2017 Recap: The Index As a First Class Citizen

Featured • 6/24/2017 • 2 min read

OSCON 2017 was our first conference as a company. Held in our backyard here in Austin, TX, and coming just days after our official launch, it was an excellent introduction into the open source community.

Ali Cooley

Tanimoto & Chemical Similarity with Pilosa

6/15/2017 • 5 min read

As we continue to test Pilosa against various types of data (e.g., the Billion Taxi Ride Dataset), we decided to turn our next ...

Linh Vo

Pilosa 0.4.0 Released

6/8/2017 • 2 min read

The Pilosa team is happy to announce the release of Pilosa 0.4.0, marking our second minor release since open-sourcing on April 29 ...

Cody Soyland

The Billion Taxi Ride Dataset with Pilosa

6/2/2017 • 4 min read

Pilosa was originally built for the very specific use case of arbitrary audience segmentation on hundreds of millions of people ...

Matt Jaffee and Alan Bernstein

The OSCON 2017 Guide to Authentic Austin Tacos

5/10/2017 • 3 min read

Before we begin, OSCONers, let’s get real: If you’re not brave enough to order from a food truck, this list is not for you. Four ...

Ali Cooley

OSCON 2017: The Index As a First Class Citizen

5/5/2017 • 2 min read

Don’t miss Pilosa’s Lead “Slothware” Engineer, Matt Jaffee, at his O’Reilly Open Source Convention speaking debut! Titled ...

Ali Cooley

Pilosa at OSCON 2017

5/5/2017 • 2 min read

Join us for the official launch of Pilosa at the O’Reilly Open Source Convention in our home town of Austin, Texas!

Ali Cooley

Hello, World

4/29/2017 • 2 min read

We are Pilosa, order of the sloth. We make slothware.

Our slumber (which is what some call a group of sloths) has created a ...

Travis Turner