Presentation: Uber's Spatio-Temporal Data

Uber’s Marketplace is the algorithmic brains and decision engine behind our ride-sharing services. Marketplace Forecasting builds and deploys spatio-temporal models and forecasts to enable hyperlocal decision making. To model the physical world requires us to reimagine how we look at the basic problem of forecasting.

We will discuss the challenges of modeling the influence of external signals, such as global news events and holidays in our Marketplace. In the majority of cases, there is limited historical data, and in cases where cities have just launched, there is no data at all. We will briefly cover how different techniques ranging from linear to deep learning models, generalized embeddings and cutting edge AI to help us forecast the future states of the Marketplace and even predict the onset of extreme events before they occur!