[Pycon] [new paper] "Breno Freitas" - Modern gold mining: leveraging Machine Learning to predict GMV at Shopify

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Title: Modern gold mining: leveraging Machine Learning to predict GMV at Shopify
Duration: 45 (includes Q&A)
Q&A Session: 0
Language: en
Type: Talk

Abstract: Shopify houses more than 600,000 merchants all around the world. Shopify Capital aims to provide merchants with accessible cash to help them grow their businesses in a timely manner. With our high volume of data we are able to provide better funding options for our merchants by looking into many features to predict how well they will perform, thus providing them with affordable and coherent cash advances.

Capital has come a long way from manual processes to simple machine learning models to a production-ready deep learning model. In this talk we will present the challenges we faced along the way as well as the lessons learned, accompanied by useful technical information about how we explore models and make decisions in order to ensure we have a first-class ML powering our merchants' businesses.

Tags: [u'machine-learning', u'time-series', u'Artificial Intelligence']