ecommerce Evolution of the Mobile Phone Industry In this report, we’ll chart the progress of the mobile phone industry from the flip phones of the mid-90s to the smartphones of today.
The State of Ecommerce - 2019 Report We analyzed 138 million dotcom sites, with a focus on ~6 million ecommerce sites. Here's what we found.
Principles for Managing Data & Product Quality Measure everything, set realistic targets, Think statistically and 6 other principles for managing product/data quality
Mapping the Universe of E-commerce Brands Of the thousands of attributes that we handle while curating product catalogs, the hardest and perhaps most important attribute is brand. Consumers often begin their searches with brand names of the products they're
How we do Data QA @ Semantics3: Processes & Humans-in-the-Loop (Part 2) In this second of two posts about data quality, I'd like to delve into the challenge of building and maintaining evolving datasets, i.e., datasets that are function of changing inputs and fuzzy
How we do Data QA @ Semantics3: Statistics & Algorithms (Part 1) In this first of two posts about data quality, I'd like to delve into the challenge of building and maintaining evolving datasets, i.e., datasets that are function of changing inputs and fuzzy
How to Launch and Maintain Enterprise AI Products There is a significant disconnect between the perception and reality of how enterprise AI products are built.The narrative seems to be that given a business problem, the data science team sets about
Deriving Meaning through Machine Learning: The Next Chapter in Retail Three slides from Benedict Evans' brilliant talk, The End of the Beginning, really caught my attention.The Old and the NewAcross industries, machine learning is helping us get to successive levels of meaning
Running marketplaces is a cut-throat job. Who will survive? 2017 was the year of retail apocalypse. Now it looks like the worst has passed. The SPDR S&P Retail fund (XRT), a collection of traditional…
Brexit & trade wars are causing a customs crisis. What’s the solution? Answer: Broker expertise + technology
Product classification with AI: How machine learning sped up logistics for Aeropost Pasta. Have you ever thought about importing it? Artisanal pasta maybe?
Ecommerce marketplaces have a product content problem, and its killing them. It is the best of times, it is the worst of times. At the point of writing, there are approximately 40–50 ecommerce marketplaces available…
PopShops API Migration guide: Here’s how you can migrate your product data feeds from Rakuten… So, in case you haven’t heard about it yet, Popshops API is shutting down. It’s kind of a big deal, especially since PopShops product data…
Rakuten PopShops is shutting down. Do you have an alternative? Try Semantics3’s Affiliate Feeds Solution!
Justin Timberlake’s Super Bowl Performance Drives Pepsi’s Market Share To Surge Overnight Attribution is a BIG deal. It’s the reason that digital advertising has always had a leg up on traditional media.
Here’s our top retail tech prediction for 2018 What do the shopping season, the 2018 Tax Bill, Artificial Intelligence and Omnichannel all have in common?
Did a Garmin watch really need to be price optimized 129 times in 30 days? How we built a dashboard tracking tens of thousands of products over the Black Friday 2017 season.
engineering Engineering tales from Semantics3–2017 edition 2017 is fast drawing to a close. Holiday schedules, long-planned vacations, family gatherings and slower days. There is just something in…
Why is Amazon hiding its ownership of private labels? Brands have power and Amazon desperately want to harness it. Here’s how they’re going about it.
Where are the REAL deals this Thanksgiving? Announcing the 2017 Holiday Sales Dashboard, by Semantics3 & Slickdeals. Get the bird’s eye view to the best deals.
The “Amazon Amendment” could hand the retailer an unfair advantage in government procurement Section 801 of the National Defense Authorization Act is a sweetheart deal for Amazon and is unfair to the retail industry
Powering your ecommerce pricing strategy Let’s say you sell Glow Pets Pillow Sets on your ecommerce store.
Amazon is big. Omnichannel Amazon will be an even bigger, all-consuming giant. Amazon in 2017, is like Morgoth back in the day before Sauron turned up. A better, badder version of what might come next. Its laser sharp…