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.

Highlights: Google Brain, Draco 3D image compression, and Google Cloud Key Management Service

The Developer Show is where you can stay up to date on all the latest Google Developer news, straight from the experts.

The Google Brain team

The Google Brain team’s long-term goal is to create more intelligent software and systems that improve people’s lives, which they pursue through both pure and applied research in a variety of different domains. On the Developer Show, we’ve shared a bunch of links to their work over the last year… But there’s so much more. Take a look at this post, for a review of the progress the team has made in 2016 and some of what may be in store for 2017.

Introducing Draco

The Chrome Media team has created Draco, an open source compression library to improve the storage and transmission of 3D graphics. With it, applications using 3D graphics can be significantly smaller without compromising visual fidelity. For examples and a link to the GitHub, head on over to the post.

Google Play Developer Console

We recently simplified and improved the merchant experience for those of you who have paid apps, in-app purchases, or subscriptions. These include moving order management to the Google Play Developer Console, adding some improved features, and making payments settings accessible from the Developer Console in addition to payments.google.com. For all the details, check out the post.

Google Cloud Key Management Service

Google Cloud Key Management Service is now available in beta in select countries. With Cloud KMS, you can manage symmetric encryption keys in a cloud-hosted solution, whether they’re used to protect data stored in GCP or another environment. For more on how this fits into the Google Cloud Platform encryption continuum and links to get started, check out the post.

Security talks at Google during the RSA Conference

Oh, and if you’re in San Francisco next month for the RSA Conference, stop by our SF office for a series of 20 security talks just up the street from where the RSA conference is held. Here is schedule of talks.

Introducing insights in the Google My Business API

We recently introduced business location insights in the Google My Business API to make it easier for you to programmatically access location insights such as total number of searches, views and actions that let you track and analyze where and how people are finding your business on Google.

Enhancements to coursework in the Classroom API

We’ve made the coursework endpoints in the Classroom API more robust with additional management capabilities enabling your app to create and update questions, modify and delete coursework, and add Drive items and YouTube videos to coursework and student submissions. For more details on what you can build with coursework, head on over to the post for a cool video and links.

Transition to expanded text ads

Oh, and for you AdWords users, remember to transition to expanded text ads before January 31st, 2017. You may want to start with the best practices and other docs linked on the post.