Quora is a question and answer site where users can ask questions, answer questions from other users, and interact through private messaging. It was founded by former Facebook employees and has over 190 million monthly users. The site allows users to sign up, ask and answer questions, vote on content, and follow topics. Quora uses technologies like Python, Tornado, MySQL, and Redis to power its site and aims to be a place for meaningful knowledge sharing.

1. Qu-or-a
-Nidhi Dange
-Komal Bhole

2. What is quora
 Quora is a place to gain
and share knowledge.
 It's a platform to ask
questions and connect
with people who contribute
unique insights and quality
answers.
 Founders:
 Adam D’Angelo (Former
Facebook CTO and VP of
Engineering)
 Charlie Cheever (led
Facebook Connect)

3. What can you do on Quora?
 Sign up
 Ask/answer questions(or both)
 Upvotes/Downvotes
 Follow pages/questions
 Private Chats
 Credits

5. Statistics
 190 million monthly users
 40 million users in the USA
 More than 200 million monthly unique visitors
 400,000+ topics
 40% of quora traffic comes from mobiles.
 15% users are from India.
 $1.8 billion estimated value.

6. Key Stakeholders in the business
model
 Top Writers
 VIP Writers
 Users
 Publishers/Online Businesses
 Investors

7. Profile Analysis
Using R script:
To analyze the Quora profile of
Mr Jimmy in terms of the questions
that he answers and the time of his
activities on Quora.

9. Dataset

15.  Yahoo! Answers
 WikiAnswers
 StackExchange / StackOverflow
 Facebook Question
Competitors

16. Technologies
 Backend Scripting: Python/c++
 Tornado web framework
 Database: (Jianfeng Hu)
 Caching datastores
 Pycache
 Memcache
 Redis
 Ground-truth datastores
 MySQL
 HBase
 Redis

17.  Client-side scripting : JavaScript
 Web Servers : Nginx , Paste WSGI HTTP Server 0.5
 Traffic Analysis Tool : Google Analytics
 MarkUp Language : HTML
 Character Encoding : UTF-8
 SSL Certificate : GeoTrust
 Site Elements :
 Gzip Compression
 SPDY
 CSS (Inline and Embeded)
 Cookies Expiring in Decades

19. References
 https://www.maxcdn.com/one/visual-glossary/spdy/
 https://www.similarweb.com/website/quora.com
 https://www.quora.com/What-datastores-does-Quora-use-1