Greg

About Greg

Greg is a software architect on the Search & Recommendations team at Wayfair.

Information Week Interviews Wayfair on its use of Markov Clustering

These days, in the big data community, we often hear how biologists have adopted and are using distributed computing technologies that were first introduced to solve problems in software engineering. The fact that Wayfair has done the inverse and used a tool initially developed to help biologists cluster similar proteins together to solve a problem in e-commerce, piqued the curiosity of Information Week magazine, who asked us for an interview about our February blog post on using Markov clustering for generating recommendations http://engineering.wayfair.com/recommendations-with-markov-clustering/. Read the interview here http://www.informationweek.com/big-data/news/big-data-analytics/240007850/online-retailer-uses-dna-research-to-connect-with-customers