Getting organized: cleaning up bol.com with Data Science

    By Ernst Kuiper on 20-02-2018
    Category: Blog, Data Science & AI Tags:

    Data Science and Machine Learning are becoming more integrated into current businesses. Especially in e-commerce there is huge potential for predictive modeling. It is therefore no surprise that bol.com has given extra focus on significantly expanding its Data Science efforts the coming year. That’s not to say that there aren’t already some interesting Data Science projects running. In this blog post we will take a look at one of the projects I am currently working on with fellow data scientist Joep Janssen: the chunk project.

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    Big, bigger, scalable

    By ir. drs. Niels Basjes on 22-03-2017
    Category: Architecture, Development Tags:

    At bol.com we service millions of products to millions of customers, resulting in billions of pages each year. We want to create the most effective service to our visitors we possibly can. So we spent a lot of time preparing the content, monitoring the systems and analyzing how we can support our customers better in finding what they really want.

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    Big, bigger, scalable

    Nextbuild 2017

    On: 20 May 2017 at: High Tech Campus Eindhoven
    Category: Events Tags:

    On The NextBuild Conference I will host a talk about Designing scalable data intensive applications. At bol.com the datavolumes we need to process exceed the capacity of any single computer. As a consequence we are forced to think about designing our data intensive applications in such a way that they can be run on a cluster of systems and grow to handle much more that the volumes of today. In this talk I will show the main design concepts that bol.com has been using for more than 8 years that are needed to…

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    Nextbuild 2017