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Introducing RoSE: Wayfair’s Room Style Estimator

Introducing RoSE: Wayfair’s Room Style Estimator

Esra Cansizoglu Esra Cansizoglu May 9th, 2019

Introduction: Interior design and home decoration involve a high amount of guesswork. In addition to the visual appearance of each individual item, the arrangement of these items in a room and how well they fit together are also highly important. These considerations combine to create the notoriously subjective concept of……

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The Biggest Ad Tech Company You’ve Never Heard Of: Ad Tech & Customer Intelligence Engineering at Wayfair

The Biggest Ad Tech Company You’ve Never Heard Of: Ad Tech & Customer Intelligence Engineering at Wayfair

Franklyn Tamalenus Franklyn Tamalenus April 1st, 2019

An introduction by way of some marketing prose. Cutting edge intelligent systems. Big data at scale. World class ad tech to drive phenomenal growth in a multi-billion dollar business. Real-time tracking and personalization to engage millions of shoppers daily: Ad Tech & Customer Intelligence Engineering @ Wayfair. Meet the two…

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Wayfair DS Explains It All: Tim Zhang on Training Image Synthesis

Wayfair DS Explains It All: Tim Zhang on Training Image Synthesis

Rachel Kirkwood Rachel Kirkwood March 18th, 2019

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……

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Wayfair DS Explains It All: Archi Mitra on Human-in-the-loop Systems

Wayfair DS Explains It All: Archi Mitra on Human-in-the-loop Systems

Rachel Kirkwood Rachel Kirkwood March 4th, 2019

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……

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Wayfair DS Explains It All: Zephy McKanna on Multi-Armed Bandits

Wayfair DS Explains It All: Zephy McKanna on Multi-Armed Bandits

Ingrid Xu Ingrid Xu February 19th, 2019

This week, Zephy McKanna sets out to explain Multi-Armed bandits. Here at Wayfair, we are constantly testing new algorithms, product sort orders, marketing, and other messages using epsilon-first Multi-Armed Bandits – also known as A/B tests. We are also employing some more interesting MAB algorithms, like Thompson Sampling, to dynamically……

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Wayfair DS Explains It All: Afshaan Mazagonwalla on Bayesian Machine Learning

Wayfair DS Explains It All: Afshaan Mazagonwalla on Bayesian Machine Learning

Rachel Kirkwood Rachel Kirkwood January 21st, 2019

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……

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Moving from Academia to Industry: 10 Tips from Wayfair Data Science PhDs

Moving from Academia to Industry: 10 Tips from Wayfair Data Science PhDs

Rachel Kirkwood Rachel Kirkwood October 31st, 2018

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……

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How We Use Machine Learning and Natural Language Processing to Empower Search

How We Use Machine Learning and Natural Language Processing to Empower Search

Avatar Suyash Sonawane October 15th, 2018

Search is critical to the customer experience at Wayfair. What we show on the first page of results is incredibly important for users. The graph below shows what many people might already know when it comes to browsing and search habits: The majority of customers rarely look beyond the products…

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Diversity in Tech: Data Science Manager Jen Wang Shares Her Thoughts with ForbesBooks

Diversity in Tech: Data Science Manager Jen Wang Shares Her Thoughts with ForbesBooks

Rachel Kirkwood Rachel Kirkwood August 13th, 2018

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……

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Wayfair Data Science Hosts 2nd Immersion Program

Wayfair Data Science Hosts 2nd Immersion Program

Rachel Kirkwood Rachel Kirkwood July 11th, 2018

Top left to right: Yumeng Ma (University of Michigan), Steven Yin (Columbia), Michael Spece, Carnegie Mellon University), Quinn Donahoe (University of Pittsburgh), Cristian Gavrus (UC Berkeley) Bottom left to right: Ai Xu (Harvard), Elyse Norton (NYU), Aybike Ulusan (Northeastern),Yuija Zhou (Boston University)   It’s safe to say that Wayfair’s Data……

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Information Retrieval and Machine Learning at Wayfair

Information Retrieval and Machine Learning at Wayfair

Rachel Kirkwood Rachel Kirkwood July 6th, 2018

Come find us! Next week, Wayfair Data Science will be hitting the road. Data scientists and engineers from across our teams will be attending the SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval in Ann Arbor, Michigan, as well as the International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML) in Stockholm, Sweden. Here……

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