LinkedIn like any other tech company leverages the power of Data, stores it, analyze it, gains insights, and puts it into action, to maximize their operations, and user engagement, to drive profit margin. LinkedIn uses data from every possible way like Click streams, whose profile the user is looking, and how many times the user visits a certain page, and much more. LinkedIn streamlines their operations using various techniques uses new-age technologies like, Big Data, Machine Learning, Big Data Analytics, etc. to churn huge chunk of data, and gain massive insights to provide meaningfully information, that improves the user engagements.
LinkedIn offers you options for the People You may know feature, and many other features to connect with more people on the platform to spearhead your career. Check out Intellipaat's Data Analyst Course. Also, watch the following YouTube video on Excel for Data Analytics to get started in the domain.