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June 17, 2021
At Wayfair, we recommend millions of products across all styles and budgets. Because of the scale of our catalog, we constantly ask ourselves: how can we help our customers find the right products efficiently while discovering exciting complements to fill out their space?
January 20, 2020
Wayfair has a huge catalog with over 14 million items. Our site features a diverse array of products for people’s homes, with product categories ranging from “appliances” to “décor and pillows” to “outdoor storage sheds.” Some of these categories include hundreds of thousands of products; this broad offering ensures that we have something for every style and home. However, the large size of our product catalog also makes it hard for customers to find the perfect item among all of the possible options.
August 14, 2019
Wayfair sells over 10 million products on our website. This vast selection ensures that customers have numerous options when shopping for a particular item; but it also makes effective, personalized product recommendations of vital importance in helping our customers find products that are relevant to their interests. This week in Wayfair Data Science’s explainer series, Data Scientist Samuel Yusuf discusses the two main domains of collaborative filtering (memory based and model based) and how they can be applied to make predictions on a customer’s preference for a product.
June 10, 2019
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 Data Science’s explainer series, Senior Data Scientist Cole Zuber describes how we approach evaluating these recommender systems.
October 15, 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 on the first page of search results.
February 20, 2018
Right now, Wayfair has about 86,000 rugs available for purchase. On the first page of our rug category page, however, we only have room for the top 48. You see even fewer if you don’t happen to scroll or swipe down. When it comes to our customer’s experience, what we choose to place at the top makes a big difference! At present, we don’t explicitly showcase a diverse array of products. On browse pages for categories such as rugs, couches, or coffee tables, we instead combine personalized recommendations with the general popularity of products.