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Eugene Yan details building a product classification API from data acquisition to deployment

Eugene Yan details a multi-part process for building a product classification API, emphasizing the importance of prototyping to gain stakeholder buy-in. He explains how to acquire and prepare data, including cleaning titles and handling encoding issues, before training a machine learning model. The series also covers developing the API itself and demonstrates image search capabilities, though the API was later discontinued due to cloud costs. AI

IMPACT Provides a practical guide to end-to-end data product development, useful for engineers building similar classification systems.

RANK_REASON The cluster consists of a series of blog posts detailing the technical process of building a product classification API, including data preparation and model training.

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Eugene Yan details building a product classification API from data acquisition to deployment

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COVERAGE [4]

  1. Eugene Yan TIER_1 English(EN) ·

    How Prototyping Can Help You to Get Buy-In

    Building prototypes helped get buy-in when roadmaps & design docs failed.

  2. Eugene Yan TIER_1 English(EN) ·

    Product Categorization API Part 3: Creating an API

    Or how to put machine learning models into production.

  3. Eugene Yan TIER_1 English(EN) ·

    Product Classification API Part 2: Data Preparation

    Cleaning up text and messing with ascii (urgh!)

  4. Eugene Yan TIER_1 Français(FR) ·

    Product Classification API Part 1: Data Acquisition

    Parsing json and formatting product titles and categories.