Zalando Talk and Snowplow with Alex Dean

This time we have a beautiful location at Zalando which means we must restrict access to 80-100 visitors!

And we have two talks:

• Machine Learned Weight Watching (details below)

• A talk from Alex Dean, author of the Snowplow platform (https://github.com/snowplow/snowplow)

Please notice: Think twice before registering if you really have time. If you registered and can not make it, you must release your seat! We have a bad registering and appearing rate so please help us. All visitors will be registered at the entrance by us and Zalando!

Wishing us all a happy and interesting event!

Details Zalando Talk:

Speaker

Roland Vollgraf, Data Science Expert at Zalando. Main focus on Warehouse Logistics.

Title

Machine Learned Weight Watching

Abstract

It is of general interest for Zalando to know the weights of articles in stock. Although some of Zalando’s articles had been manually weighed, we were in the dark for the majority of items, since explicit weighing is expensive and time consuming. To estimate the weight for all the articles in Zalando’s catalogue, we had at our disposal the measurements that had already been made, and the weights of all customer bound packages that had been sent out of one of the warehouses. With this data, we developed a method that estimates a weight distribution for each article in the warehouse. The method has proven to be highly accurate, despite multiple error sources such as faulty scales, varying filling and packing materials, and occasional packages with incorrect items. In our talk, we will present how we got these accurate results, and where we are heading next.