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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

  • Govind Chandrasekhar
    Govind Chandrasekhar
5 min read

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

  • Govind Chandrasekhar
    Govind Chandrasekhar
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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

  • Govind Chandrasekhar
    Govind Chandrasekhar
4 min read

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

  • Govind Chandrasekhar
    Govind Chandrasekhar
4 min read

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

  • Govind Chandrasekhar
    Govind Chandrasekhar
3 min read

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…

  • Semantics3
    Semantics3
5 min read

Anatomy of HS Codes.

What are they? Is it 6 digits or 10? Does it matter?

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    Semantics3
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Brexit & trade wars are causing a customs crisis. What’s the solution?

Answer: Broker expertise + technology

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    Semantics3
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Product classification with AI: How machine learning sped up logistics for Aeropost

Pasta. Have you ever thought about importing it? Artisanal pasta maybe?

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    Semantics3
6 min read

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…

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    Semantics3
6 min read

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…

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    Semantics3
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Rakuten PopShops is shutting down. Do you have an alternative?

Try Semantics3’s Affiliate Feeds Solution!

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    Semantics3
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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.

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    Semantics3
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Partitioning in PostgreSQL

Rotating your API request logs table.

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    Semantics3
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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?

  • Semantics3
    Semantics3
10 min read

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.

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    Semantics3
5 min read
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…

  • Ramanan Balakrishnan
    Ramanan Balakrishnan
3 min read

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.

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    Semantics3
5 min read

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.

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    Semantics3
2 min read

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

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    Semantics3
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Powering your ecommerce pricing strategy

Let’s say you sell Glow Pets Pillow Sets on your ecommerce store.

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    Semantics3
3 min read

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…

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    Semantics3
6 min read
engineering

Towards better code

Let’s face it, we have have been writing software for decades now. We can no longer claim to be a new domain and pass-off nascency as an…

  • Ramanan Balakrishnan
    Ramanan Balakrishnan
3 min read
engineering

Real-time analytics using Postgres

Build you a faster dashboard for great good.

  • Ramanan Balakrishnan
    Ramanan Balakrishnan
5 min read
engineering

A simplified guide to gRPC in Python

Get rolling with gRPC in minutes

  • Ramanan Balakrishnan
    Ramanan Balakrishnan
2 min read
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