Why Retail Returns Become a Technology Problem as Businesses Grow

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  The return looks simple from the customer's side. The customer sends the product back. The retailer receives it, processes the return, issues a refund, and puts the item back into inventory if it can be sold again. Behind that simple transaction, however, several systems may need to agree. The ecommerce platform has an original order. The payment system has a transaction. The warehouse has the returned product. The inventory system needs to know whether it can sell that product again. Finance needs to record the refund. Customer service needs to know what happened. When a retailer has few returns, employees can often fill the gaps manually. As the business grows, that approach becomes harder to maintain . The return itself isn't necessarily difficult . Keeping every system in sync is. Returns Touch More Systems Than Most Retailers Expect Consider a customer who buys a jacket online and returns it to a physical store. The store needs to identify the original order, confi...
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Python Programming For Data Science and Machine Learning

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Python is a general-purpose, high-level, object-oriented, and easy to learn programming language. It was created by Guido van Rossum, who is known as the godfather of “Python”.
                         Python Programming

Python is a popular programming language because of its simplicity, ease of use, open-source licensing and accessibility — the foundation of its renowned community which provides great support and help in creating tons of packages, tutorials, and sample programs.
Python can be used to develop a wide variety of applications — ranging from Web, Desktop GUI based programs/applications to science and mathematics programs, and Machine learning and other big data computing systems.
Let’s explore the use of Python in Machine Learning, Data Science and Data Engineering.

Machine Learning

Machine learning is a relatively new and evolving system development paradigm that has quickly become a mandatory requirement for companies and programmers to understand and use. See our previous article on Machine Learning for the background. Due to the complex, scientific computing nature of machine learning applications, Python is considered the most suitable programming language. This is because of its extensive and mature collection of mathematics and statistics libraries, extensibility, ease of use and wide adoption within the scientific community. As a result, Python has become the recommended programming language for machine learning systems development.

Data Science

Data science combines cutting edge computer and storage technologies with data representation and transformation algorithms and scientific methodology to develop solutions for a variety of complex data analysis problems encompassing raw and structured data in any format. A Data Scientist possesses knowledge of solutions to various classes of data-oriented problems. And expertise in applying the necessary algorithms, statistics, and mathematic models, to create the required solutions. Python is recognized among the most effective and popular tools for solving data science-related problems.

Data Engineering

Data Engineers build the foundations for Data Science and Machine Learning systems and solutions. Data Engineers are technology experts who start with the requirements identified by the data scientist. These requirements drive the development of data platforms that leverage complex data extraction, loading, and transformation to deliver structured datasets that allow the Data Scientist to focus on solving the business problem. Again, Python is an essential tool in the Data Engineer’s Toolbox — one that is used every day to architect and operate the big data infrastructure that is leveraged by the data scientist.

Use cases for Python, Data Science and Machine Learning

Here are some example Data Science and Machine Learning applications that leverage Python.
  • Netflix uses data science too, to understand user viewing patterns and behavioral drivers. This, in turn, helps Netflix too, understand user likes/dislikes and predict and suggest relevant items to view.
  • Amazon, Walmart, and Target are heavily using data science, data mining and machine learning to understand the user's preferences and shopping behavior. This assists in predicting demands to drive inventory management and to suggest relevant products to online users or via email marketing.
  • Spotify uses data science and machine learning to make music recommendations to its users.
  • Spam programs are making use of data science and machine learning algorithm(s) to detect and prevent spam emails.  
This article provides an overview of Python and its application to Data Science and Machine Learning and why it is important.

 Aezion Inc. Solution Architects, Engineers, and Custom Software Developers can assist you in exploring Python-based solutions for your Data Science and Machine Learning applications. Contact us to learn more.
Location: Dallas, TX, USA

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