Rachel Kirkwood

Meet John Walk: Ice Climber. Nuclear Physicist. Data Scientist.

John stands out in a room. With a flaming red beard and an arm of tattoos, he looks like he might be more at home in a Nordic tavern than an office. But once you notice his Captain Hammer t-shirt, the Gandalf action figure on his desk, and start talking to him about Nuclear Physics, you see that he’s right at home in a room full of data scientists.

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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 Tech Blog

Wayfair Data Science Launches New Video Explainer Series!

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

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Diversity in Tech: Data Science Manager Jen Wang Shares Her Thoughts with ForbesBooks

Workplace diversity is not just an ethical issue. Teams that overcome diversity issues (e.g., gender, race, ethnicity, experience) often achieve greater productivity than homogeneous teams. If you’re surrounded by people who are different from you, you will be constantly challenged to reexamine facts, think deeper, and explain better. In this way diversity can enhance creativity and boost team performance and technological innovation.

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Wayfair Data Science Hosts 2nd Immersion Program

Top left to right: Yumeng Ma (University of Michigan), Steven Yin (Columbia), Michael Spece, Carnegie Mellon University), Quinn Donahoe (University of Pittsburgh), Cristian Gavrus (UC Berkeley)

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Wayfair Tech Blog

Director Dan Wulin Shares His Data Journey in New Podcast

No two people's paths to Wayfair are exactly the same. On our data science team alone we employ physicists, neuroscientists, biophysical chemists, economists, mathematicians, statisticians, and more! Our data scientists are united by a love of data and a knack for problem solving, but each person has a different story to tell about how they gained these skills.

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