Spree Product Recommendations

(No data scientists required!)

By David Jones Resolve Digital - @d_jones

Amazon’s sales jumped ~29% after adding

recommendation features*

*“Amazon's recommendation secret” http://tech.fortune.cnn.com/2012/07/30/amazon-5/

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Product Recommendations

✓ Better user experience

✓ More pages viewed per visitor

✓ Higher conversion rate

✓ Higher average order size

✓ Win-win for customers and store owners

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The problem⨯ Requires a solid understanding about

machine learning

⨯ You need a data scientist to run it

⨯ Out of reach for small/medium sized stores

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Prediction.IO✓ Open Source

✓ Deploy yourself or instantly on Amazon’s Cloud

✓ Cheap to run (starts at $0.06/hr)

✓ Developer friendly API

✓ Easy to use admin UI

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ratings

product views

orders

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One important thing• Existing data is key:

• Quality

• Quantity

• No existing data? Start logging data today, add recommendations later.

Deploy Server

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David Jones, @d_jones

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Ruby SDK

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