On Demand QA Environments The Problem Let's just lead with this. The Engineering team at Numerator will double in the next year... An engineering team generally doesn't go from 20 - 40 or 40 - 80 without
Hackdays at Numerator This past week saw the conclusion to our most recent company-wide Hack Day at Numerator. Each quarter we set aside 2 days for anyone to work in teams, or solo, on whatever they
Auto-Scaling Vertica Clusters With consumer purchase data, business questions are only limited by imagination.What is the purchase frequency for Pepsi among Hispanics in the Northeast?Share of wallet Amazon has among regular K-Cup / Coffee Pod
Large Scale Migration to Amazon Aurora Recently, the platform team at InfoScout completed a large infrastructure migration to swap our primary transactional database from AWS RDS MySQL to AWS Aurora.The project was a success on many fronts and
Receipt Store Detection via Tensorflow Inception Model The Motivation InfoScout’s data analytics and business intelligence platform is built on top of receipts. A lot of receipts... Receipts today come in many different shapes, sizes, and vary from retailer to
HPE Vertica at InfoScout Our dataset at InfoScout is unique. For one, it's large - now the largest purchase panel in the world providing item-level data across all retailers. Secondly, all data is tied to unique households
Bananas, Hananas, Jananas: A Tale of Typos The core of InfoScout’s business intelligence platform is built on top of receipts. Hundreds of thousands of receipt images are uploaded by shoppers from all over the country, every single day. The
