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Wayfair DS Explains It All: Tim Zhang on Training Image Synthesis

This week in Wayfair Data Science’s explainer series, Senior Machine Learning Engineer Tim Zhang lays out what you need to know about training image synthesis. Training image synthesis is a fairly young project for the Computer Vision team at Wayfair. We have explored a few different use cases that can take advantage of this approach, such as search-with-photo, image-based 3D geometry generation, and camera perspective estimation. Looking forward, we are aiming at faster rendering speed and more intelligent domain randomization.

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Engineering Bootcamp Graduates Series: Working on My Biggest Codebase Yet

Becoming a software engineer isn’t always straightforward or the same for each person; careers in the industry can start at any point in your working life, backed by a variety of studied disciplines or work experience. We know that good software engineers don’t always take the traditional path into development, which is why we’ve created Wayfair Labs.

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Wayfair DS Explains It All: Archi Mitra on Human-in-the-loop Systems

In this installment, Archi Mitra (Senior Machine Learning Engineer on the Computer Vision team) lays out an intro to Human-in-the-loop systems, which are used in every Computer Vision project here at Wayfair. Our Visual Search, Object Detection, Room & Style algorithm leverages this system to annotate training data and validate results. Media metadata tagging uses this system to improve tagging efficiency and build one of a kind integrated AI model development platform.

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Wayfair DS Explains It All: Tim O'Connor on Experimentation

This week in Wayfair Data Science’s explainer series, Tim O’Connor discusses experimentation in the context of data science. Experiments are crucial to data science, helping to determine which version of a model is to use in future iterations of a system or generating new sources of data unavailable in a company’s historical data. As such, designing and conducting experiments is a core capability for data scientists at Wayfair. In this video, Tim explains the basics behind A/B tests and synthetic controls, and discusses how they are used to tackle various questions at the company.

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Engineering Bootcamp Graduates Series: From Wayfair Labs and Beyond

Becoming a software engineer isn’t always straightforward or the same for each person; careers in the industry can start at any point in your working life, backed by a variety of studied disciplines or work experience. We know that good software engineers don’t always take the traditional path into development, which is why we’ve created Wayfair Labs.

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Wayfair DS Explains It All: Afshaan Mazagonwalla on Bayesian Machine Learning

Welcome back to Wayfair Data Science's Explainer Series! This week, Afshaan Mazagonwalla will be speaking about Bayesian Machine Learning

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Wayfair Data Science Launches New Video Explainer Series!

Find out about how Wayfair tackles product recommendations in our first installment!

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Our Self-Service Hybrid Performance Engineering Platform

At Wayfair, we pride ourselves on our speedy response times to issues during heavy web traffic to ensure a smooth customer experience. As we scale and continue adding products to our catalog, it is imperative that our backend infrastructure is able to handle increased traffic, especially during retail peaks and promotional sales.

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The Wonder of Way Day: How We Built a Private Cloud in Twenty Four Hours to Weather Our Biggest Day Ever

As we head into Black Friday, Cyber Monday, and retail’s peak season for 2018, I wanted to reflect back on some excitement we had earlier in the year at Wayfair; specifically how we reacted and built, as a tech team, toward challenges we hadn’t seen before. I hope other e-commerce and tech leaders who are on a scaling journey will be interested in what we hit, and frankly, it was an adventure that anyone in the technology might find interesting.