The Developer Show — TL;DR 055

Highlights: Welcoming Fabric to Google, getting started with BigQuery, and Word-Sense Disambiguation

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Word-Sense Disambiguation

Understanding the various meanings of a particular word in text is key to understanding language. To help with this challenge, we’re happy to announce the release of word-sense annotations; manually annotated with senses, from the New Oxford American Dictionary. This is one of the largest releases of fully sense-annotated English corpora; and the GitHub link is on the post.

There are three posts this week from Google Play in conversation with developers about their success on the platform:

Wallapop

First, the co-founder and CEO and the Growth Hacking Manager of Wallapop explain how using store listing experiments has increased their conversion rate by 17%, and has allowed them to optimize organic installs.

Peak and Soundcloud

Next are some tips from Peak and Soundcloud on how to grow your startup on Google Play.

Southeast Asian indie game developers

And a Southeast Asian indie developer talked about how they used Google Play features to improve their conversion rate by 25%, another to significantly improve user retention, and a third to grow revenue by 100%.

Google Cloud Audit Logging

Google Cloud Audit Logging helps you to determine who did what, where, and when on Google Cloud Platform. We’ve significantly expanded the set of products integrated including Google Compute Engine and Google Container Engine. Details on how to get started are on the post.

New York City Datasets

A range of New York City public datasets are now available on Google BigQuery, including over 8 million 3–1–1 service requests, 1 billion yellow and green taxi rides, and a lot more. I know this because Reto Meier told me so on the first episode of “Today I Learned with BigQuery.” Follow the link to the post to see his video on this newly available big data or the next link for this week’s episode on…

Getting started with BigQuery

…how to run a terabyte of queries on Google BigQuery, each month, without needing a credit card.

Welcoming Fabric to Google

One more thing, we recently announced that we’ve signed an agreement to acquire Fabric to continue the great work that Twitter put into the platform. Fabric will join Google’s Developer Product Group, working with the Firebase team to help you build better apps and grow your business.