How does a chemist with a postdoc in drug design end up working as a data scientist at an e-commerce home furnishings company? “Ha, so it’s a long story actually,” says Jen Wang, data science manager on the Marketing team at Wayfair. Jen always had an interest in healthcare, and……
John stands out in a room. With a flaming red beard and an arm of tattoos, he looks like he might be more at home in a Nordic tavern than an office. But once you notice his Captain Hammer t-shirt, the Gandalf action figure on his desk, and start talking……
Wayfair has a strong emphasis on causal inference when evaluating the impact of business strategies. The assumptions of experimentation and regression are critical to know your models are capturing true effects and not confounding variables. In this video, Wayfair data scientist Dan VanLunen outlines some of these key assumptions along……
This week in Wayfair Data Science’s explainer series, Senior Machine Learning Engineer Tim Zhang lays out what you need to know about training image synthesis. Training image synthesis is a fairly young project for the Computer Vision team at Wayfair. We have explored a few different use cases that can……
In January 2019, Wayfair Data Science was thrilled to host our third immersion program for graduate students in quantitative fields. Our largest round yet, this program brought 25 PhD candidates from 12 different universities to spend a week with the data science team at Wayfair’s headquarters in Boston. Longer than……
In this installment, Archi Mitra (Senior Machine Learning Engineer on the Computer Vision team) lays out an intro to Human-in-the-loop systems, which are used in every Computer Vision project here at Wayfair. Our Visual Search, Object Detection, Room & Style algorithm leverages this system to annotate training data and validate……
This week in Wayfair Data Science’s explainer series, Tim O’Connor discusses experimentation in the context of data science. Experiments are crucial to data science, helping to determine which version of a model is to use in future iterations of a system or generating new sources of data unavailable in a……
Welcome back to Wayfair Data Science’s Explainer Series! This week, Afshaan Mazagonwalla will be speaking about Bayesian Machine Learning Wayfair uses Bayesian and Reinforcement Learning based techniques for balancing the exploration – exploitation trade off between new and popular items in ranking products on the website and for recommending sales……
Find out about how Wayfair tackles product recommendations in our first installment! Wayfair Data Science is composed of a number of sub-teams, each tackling a different set of specific business challenges. In order to give you a taste of the wide array of people and workstreams we have here……
So, you graduated college, spent half a decade in a quantitative PhD program, maybe took a postdoctoral fellowship….and now what? You may want to stay the course and pursue a tenure track faculty position at a university–or, you may not. While the pressure to remain within the academy post PhD……
Workplace diversity is not just an ethical issue. Teams that overcome diversity issues (e.g., gender, race, ethnicity, experience) often achieve greater productivity than homogeneous teams. If you’re surrounded by people who are different from you, you will be constantly challenged to reexamine facts, think deeper, and explain better. In this……
