Like many companies, Wayfair has leveraged Active Directory (AD) to centrally manage authentication as well as user and computer objects. Schema updates, Organization Unit structure changes, and Group Policy sprawl has led to a vast number of interdependencies and unnecessary complexity. Additionally, a large swath of our infrastructure is tied…
Experimentation plays a central role in understanding the business impact of data science strategies and solutions. A few weeks ago, Wayfair Data Science Manager Jerry Chen shared one way Wayfair has improved the experimentation process by building a unified test design and measurement platform (Gemini) for our marketing AB tests……
About a year ago I decided to change careers, somewhat. I was a full-stack engineer on Wayfair’s Room Planner project when I chose to try iOS development. Room Planner is a feature that lets users design their space by placing products in a virtual room. I joined the iOS side…
Introduction One of the core principles of marketing is that messaging customers about what they want or need is much stronger than messaging them about what they don’t. It’s especially important for Wayfair to identify our customers’ needs, since many of our core products are items that are purchased once……
At Wayfair, data scientists help optimize our marketing channel performance by rapidly and iteratively developing machine learning algorithms and data-driven strategies. When it comes to measuring model efficacy, AB testing plays a central role and serves as a gold standard in strategic decision making within marketing. Due to the natural……
As a 2018 summer software engineer intern, I had the opportunity to bring my vision of a Community Coding Day to life. Our goal for Community Coding Day was to inspire students from underrepresented groups to get involved in STEM – software engineering in particular – as well as provide…
Product tags reveals the detailed characteristics of a product which can be used to power PDP (product display page) creation, searching, filter creation and more.This week in Wayfair Data Science’s explainer series, Senior Data Scientist Jinnie Chen outlines some of the strategies we applied in Wayfair to perform automated product……
Continuous Integration and Continuous Deployment (CI/CD) are industry standard, best practices for web-scale software engineering. Wayfair has practiced CI for well over a decade, although the ways in which we have performed it have changed over time. I’m here to share with you the system we have built to coordinate…
Executive Summary Object detection is an important component of the computer vision workflow at Wayfair. The goal of object detection is to detect bounding boxes of the objects in an image along with the class information (Figure 1), which empowers many downstream applications. In this post, we will share a……
Domain-specific languages (DSLs) – are they worth the hype? In a recent investigation, our Berlin-based Android Team were looking to further optimize Wayfair’s Android app, and were looking around for options. With the inconvenience of creating a UI in XML, and the appeal of a language that focuses on a…
Serving effective personalized product recommendations is critical to providing a pleasant shopping experience for customers at Wayfair. To do this, the Wayfair Data Science team builds state of the art recommender systems that leverage the customer’s previous browsing history to surface products that match their interests. This week in Wayfair……
