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Using Siamese Networks to Power Accurate Product Matching in eCommerce
Retailers often compete on price to gain market share in high performance product categories. Brands too must ensure that their in-demand assortment is competitively priced across retailers. Commerce and digital shelf analytics solutions offer competitive pricing insights at both granular and SKU levels. Central to this intelligence gathering is a vital process: product matching. Product…
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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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Market Intelligence Platform with Kenshoo
We’re thrilled to announce that we have teamed up with Kenshoo to offer an integrated marketing solution that combines DataWeave’s digital shelf analytics and commerce intelligence platform with Kenshoo’s ad automation platform. This in turn, provides better recommendations on promotions to retailers and consumer brands. As e-commerce surges, consumer brands can now promote their products…
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How Apache Airflow Optimizes Complex Workflows in DataWeave’s Technology Platform
As successful businesses grow, they add a large number of people, customers, tools, technologies, etc. and roll out processes to manage the ever-increasingly complex landscape. Automation ensures that these processes are run in a smooth, efficient, swift, accurate, and cost-effective manner. To this end, Workflow Management Systems (WMS) aid businesses in rolling out an automated…
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Flaunt Your Deep-Tech Prowess at Bootstrap Paradox Hackathon Hosted by Blume Ventures
When DataWeave was founded in 2011, we set out to democratize data by enabling businesses to leverage public Web data to solve mission-critical business problems. Eight years on, we have done just that, and grown to deliver AI-powered competitive intelligence and digital shelf analytics to several global retailers and brands, which include the likes of…
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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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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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Dataweave – CherryPy vs Sanic: Which Python API Framework is Faster?
Rest APIs play a crucial role in the exchange of data between internal systems of an enterprise, or when connecting with external services. When an organization relies on APIs to deliver a service to its clients, the APIs’ performance is crucial, and can make or break the success of the service. It is, therefore, essential…
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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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Implement a Machine-Learning Product Classification System
For online retailers, price competitiveness and a broad assortment of products are key to acquiring new customers, and driving customer retention. To achieve these, they need timely, in-depth information on the pricing and product assortment of competing retailers. However, in the dynamic world of online retail, price changes occur frequently, and products are constantly added,…
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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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A Peek into GNU Parallel
GNU Parallel is a tool that can be deployed from a shell to parallelize job execution. A job can be anything from simple shell scripts to complex interdependent Python/Ruby/Perl scripts. The simplicity of ‘Parallel’ tool lies in it usage. A modern day computer with multicore processors should be enough to run your jobs in parallel. A…
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How to Conquer Data Mountains API by API | DataWeave
Let’s revisit our raison d’être: DataWeave is a platform on which we do large-scale data aggregation and serve this data in forms that are easily consumable. The nature of the data that we deal with is that: (1) it is publicly available on the web, (2) it is factual (to the extent possible), and (3) it…
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API of Telecom Recharge Plans in India
Several months ago we released our Telecom recharge plans API. It soon turned out to be one of our more popular APIs, with some of the leading online recharge portals using it extensively. (So, the next time you recharge your phone, remember us :)) In this post, we’ll talk in detail about the genesis of this API…
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Implementing API for Social Data Analysis
In today’s world, the analysis of any social media stream can reap invaluable information about, well, pretty much everything. If you are a business catering to a large number of consumers, it is a very important tool for understanding and analyzing the market’s perception about you, and how your audience reacts to whatever you present…
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Difference Between Json, Ultrajson, & Simplejson | DataWeave
Without argument, one of the most common used data model is JSON. There are two popular packages used for handling json — first is the stockjsonpackage that comes with default installation of Python, the other one issimplejson which is an optimized and maintained package for Python. The goal of this blog post is to introduce ultrajson or Ultra JSON,…