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How AI-Powered Visual Highlighting Helps Brands Achieve Product Consistency Across eCommerce
Learn how AI-powered visual highlighting helps brands maintain consistency of product images across online marketplaces with precision and speed.
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AI-powered Product Matching: The Key to Competitive Pricing Intelligence in eCommerce
With thousands of products and hundreds of online retailers to choose from, the average modern-day shopper usually compares prices across several e-commerce sites effortlessly before often settling for the lowest priced option. As a result, retailers today are forced to execute millions of price changes per day in a never-ending race to be the lowest…
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AI-Driven Mapping of Retail Taxonomies- Part 2
Mapping product taxonomies using Deep Learning In Part 1 we discussed the importance of Retail taxonomy and the applications of mapping retail taxonomies in Assortment Analytics, building Knowledge Graph, etc. Here, we will discuss how we approached the problem of mapping retail taxonomies across sources. We solved this problem by classifying every retail product to…
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Mapping eCommerce Product Taxonomy with AI Pt. 1
Product Taxonomy and its importance in retail Every product on a retail website is categorized in such a way that it denotes where the product belongs in the entire catalog. Generally, these categorizations follow a hierarchy that puts the product under some Category, Subcategory and Product Type (Ex. Clothing, Shoes & Jewelry > Men >…
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Compete Profitably in Retail: Leveraging AI-Powered Competitive Intelligence at Massive Scale
AI is everywhere. Any retailer worth his salt knows that in today’s hyper-competitive environment, you can’t win just by fighting hard – you have to do it by fighting smart. The solution? Retailers are turning to AI in droves. The problem is that many organizations regard AI as a black box of sorts – where…
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Evaluating the Influence of Learning Models
Natt Fry, a renowned thought leader in the world of retail and analytics, published recently an article expounding the value and potential of learning models influencing business decision-making across industries over the next few years. He quotes a Wall Street Journal article (paywall) published by Steven A. Cohen and Matthew W. Granade who claim that,…
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Recognize Product Attributes with AI-Powered Image Analytics
Anna is a fashionista and a merchandise manager at a large fast-fashion retailer. As part of her job, she regularly browses through the Web for the most popular designs and trends in contemporary fashion, so she can augment her product assortment with fresh and fast-moving products. She spots a picture on social media of a…
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Alibaba’s Singles Day Sale: Decoding the World’s Biggest Shopping Festival
$17.5 million every 60 seconds. That’s the volume of sales Alibaba generated on 11.11, or Singles Day. This mammoth event, decisively the world’s biggest shopping day, dwarfed last years’ Black Friday and Cyber Monday combined. This year, the anticipation around Singles Day was all-pervasive, and the sale was widely expected to break all records, as…
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Video: Using Product Images to Achieve Over 90% Accuracy in Matching E-Commerce Products
Matching images is hard! Images, intrinsically, are complex forms of information, with varying backgrounds, orientations, and noise. Developing a reliable system that achieves human-like accuracy in identifying, interpreting, and comparing images, without investing in expensive resources, is no mean task. For DataWeave, however, the ability to accurately match images is fundamental to the value we…
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Baahubali 2: Dissecting 75,000 Tweets to Uncover Audience Sentiments
Why did Katappa kill Baahubali? Two years ago, not many would have foreseen this sentence capturing the imagination of the country like it has. Demolishing all regional barriers, the movie has grossed over INR 500 crores across the world in only its first three days. While the first movie received lavish praise for its ambition,…
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Why is Product Matching Difficult? | DataWeave
Product Matching is a combination of algorithmic and manual techniques to recognize and match identical products from different sources. Product matching is at the core of competitive intelligence for retail. A competitive intelligence product is most useful when it can accurately match products of a wide range of categories in a timely manner, and at…