If you read research papers on machine learning, you’ll notice that many researchers use the same standard datasets so other data scientists can reproduce their work or try and improve...
You might think human behaviour would be hard to predict but, in ecommerce data science, it’s not actually as difficult as you may think to predict whether a customer will...
While some people might naively interpret it as negativity, I think one of the best ways you can improve an ecommerce business is to focus on the stuff you’re not...
Apache Superset is a new “enterprise-ready” web application for building business intelligence (BI) applications and dashboards. Developed by the team that built Airbnb using the Flask Python framework, React JS,...
Apache Druid is described as a high performance real time analytics database and was developed at Metamarkets in 2011 for their internal analytics system. Unlike traditional relational databases, such as...
Like most people who work in ecommerce data science, I regularly need to access data stored in a database - usually MySQL or MariaDB, but sometimes also MSSQL. Although it...
Most datasets you’ll encounter will probably contain categorical variables. They are often highly informative, but the downside is that they’re based on object or datetime data types such as text...
Like Apache Superset, Apache Airflow was developed by the engineering team at Airbnb and was open sourced in 2014. It’s a Python-based platform designed to make it easier to create,...
In both B2C and B2B ecommerce, special trading periods such as Christmas, Mothers’ Day, and Valentines’ Day can often greatly contribute to sales. Indeed, the introduction of Black Friday sales...
