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Evolving Analytics at




               Gary Dougan
       Visual Analytics Platforms
Business Intelligence Center of Excellence

              TCC 2012
Evolving analytics at ebay - 2012 Tableau Customer Conference
Real time analysis and price comparison across listings
                                             Does image size affect sales?
     Monitor the top Pages on our Site
 Search performance of specific brands by keywords and conversion rates
                                                                    Monitor site speed
                        How can we identify fraudulent transaction?
Impact of picture services on user experience
                                                              Revenue Forecasting

     How does customer sentiments impact sales?
                                                                    Track sources of site traffic
   Measure quality of items listed on site
                                                  Analyze buyer experience across verticals
      Monitor consumption of services by mobile apps
           Predict performance metrics for customer shipments
Measure advertising performance
                      Monitor key metrics for mobile consumption and capacity

     How can site trust and safety be improved?
                                  Performance of user behavior and transaction metrics
We have been able to extract business value from
  BIG DATA by creating a seamless ecosystem of
enterprise data, analytical tools, and collaboration
             - and made it pervasive!



                                        Analytics @ ebay
Road Map…

   The Opportunity

   Analytics @ ebay

   Stories from the Field

   Looking Ahead
Enable consumers
      to buy anything, anywhere, any how

      Enable merchants
      to succeed in new commerce environment (and we don’t compete
      with them)



8K+ vehicles and 340K                      600K new customers
car parts/accessories sold
                                           made first purchase in Q2 2012
each week


1.9M items listed                          A woman’s handbag
each week                                  purchased every 30   secs

                                           eBay’s mobile apps downloaded
Over 113M active
PayPal accounts                            over 90M times
Useful Data                                     2012


ENTERPRISE DATA
                     “SINGULARITY”         HADOOP CLUSTERS
  WAREHOUSE




  Relational Data   Semi-Structured Data    Unstructured Data


  10+ PB               42+ PB                 40+ PB
Capitalize On Our Data




   Shop the           Create      Enhance Positive
World’s Inventory   Enthusiasts     Experiences
Analytics @ ebay
Exploration & Testing
Daily

10M+
QUERIES

100+
EXPERIMENTS

100K+
UNIQUE DATASETS
2008
    Where we were


                                                              Static data reports
 2.6 PB EDW
                                        Excel
180K queries/day                                              Standardized,
                                                              prompted reports


1,500 active users          MicroStrategy

                                                Teradata
                                                              Ad-hoc analysis
27B rows in largest table                       SQL
                                                Assistant
We needed a better approach

                Data Democratization

                Analytics Services
                Self-service

                Extensive Knowledge
                 Sharing

                Accelerate Time to
                 Market
DataHub 4.0
A Partial View

      VIRTUAL
     DATAMART       ACCOUNT       DATA         NETWORKS       TRUST     DISCUSSION
     MANAGER       PROVISION   VISUALIZATION                 SIGNALS      ENGINE



                DATA    ENTERPRISE     STATISTICAL    SHARED       RECMND’
               MOVER    REPORTING        TOOLS       WORKSPACES     ENGINE



       DATA        SESSION        WEB           PURPOSE                  ACTIVITY
                                                             FOLLOW
      LOADER       MONITOR      ANALYTICS      BUILT TOOLS               STREAM




                                                                         DATA ACCESS SERVICES
                                                                         ANALYTICAL PRODUCTS
                                                                         COLLABORATION
ANALYTICS
CENTRALIZED
DataHub


                 VIRTUAL                                  TRUST     DISCUSSION
   ACCOUNT                    DATA         NETWORKS
                DATAMART                                 SIGNALS      ENGINE
  PROVISION                VISUALIZATION
                MANAGER



             DATA   ENTERPRISE     STATISTICAL    SHARED       RECMND’
            MOVER   REPORTING        TOOLS       WORKSPACES     ENGINE



    DATA        SESSION       WEB           PURPOSE                  ACTIVITY
                                                         FOLLOW
   LOADER       MONITOR     ANALYTICS      BUILT TOOLS               STREAM




                                                                     DATA ACCESS SERVICES
DATA ACCESS
 SERVICES
DataHub


   VIRTUAL
  DATAMART       ACCOUNT       DATA         NETWORKS       TRUST     DISCUSSION
  MANAGER       PROVISION   VISUALIZATION                 SIGNALS      ENGINE



             DATA    ENTERPRISE     STATISTICAL    SHARED       RECMND’
            MOVER    REPORTING        TOOLS       WORKSPACES     ENGINE



    DATA        SESSION        WEB           PURPOSE                  ACTIVITY
                                                          FOLLOW
   LOADER       MONITOR      ANALYTICS      BUILT TOOLS               STREAM




                                                                      ANALYTICAL PRODUCTS
Enabling Exploration & Discovery

Our Strategy

 Agile

 Self-Service

 Universal Access

 DataHub Integration

 Scaled for the Enterprise
Tableau @ ebay
                                                            Gumtree.com

                                                  Shopping.com          BillMeLater


                                                          PayPal
                                                                            Kijiji
                                                   Marketplaats
                                                                        ebay
                                                   ChinaServiceCenter
                                                                        StubHub
                                                     Cdc
                                                           mobile.internationalGmbH

2010-H1   2010-H2   2011-H1   2011-H2   2012-H1
What We’ve Seen

+100%             +200%                      +300%




    DATA SETS          PUBLISHERS             REPORT USAGE

                EBAY TABLEAU PLATFORM KPIS
EXPLORING
“BIG” DATA
DATAHUB
Collaboration


    VIRTUAL
                  ACCOUNT       DATA         NETWORKS       TRUST     DISCUSSION
   DATAMART
                 PROVISION   VISUALIZATION                 SIGNALS      ENGINE
   MANAGER



              DATA    ENTERPRISE     STATISTICAL    SHARED       RECMND’
             MOVER    REPORTING        TOOLS       WORKSPACES     ENGINE



     DATA        SESSION        WEB           PURPOSE                  ACTIVITY
                                                           FOLLOW
    LOADER       MONITOR      ANALYTICS      BUILT TOOLS               STREAM




                                                                       COLLABORATION
Work Collectively

                          Discussion Engine
                          Expert Groups




Workspaces
Trust Badges
What We Learned


 It’s the data

 Build it, they will come

 Visionary leadership
Stories from the Field
#1 Predicting Change



                                    Significant
Search Science Team
                                    drop-off in
 Improving search relevance and
                                   completion of
  quality on ebay.com
                                     new seller
                                      listings
#1 Predicting Change
Monitor selling registration flow and page level abandonment


Singularity – data retrieval
 Selling users flow path:

 Users click path:

Hadoop  VDM
 Computation and storage
Tableau
 Monitor trends
Evolving analytics at ebay - 2012 Tableau Customer Conference
#1 Predicting Change

Results & Impact
   Drop-off on Review page
   Required registration after Review page
   Saving draft listing for later re-visit
   Improved next generation C2C selling tool
#2 Appreciating Chatter



                                   Reduce
Trust Science Team
                                 bad buyer
 Improving trust on ebay.com    experience
                                and increase
                                    trust
#2 Appreciating Chatter
Monitor latest customer discussions and meters sentiment




      Hadoop – retrieval and computation

      RADAR – text mining and analysis

      Tableau – visualize topic sentiments
Evolving analytics at ebay - 2012 Tableau Customer Conference
#2 Appreciating Chatter

Results & Impact
   Understand customer sentiments
   Identify fastest growing keywords
   Discover emerging topics
   Timely response to negative experience
Evolving analytics at ebay - 2012 Tableau Customer Conference
Looking Ahead


              Thank you!
              Streaming Data
               Gary Dougan
            gdougan@ebay.com
                 in/garydougan
Self-Learning Visualizations
DataHub: Open Source Contributions




  https://github.com/eBaySF/joomla-platform

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Evolving analytics at ebay - 2012 Tableau Customer Conference

  • 1. Evolving Analytics at Gary Dougan Visual Analytics Platforms Business Intelligence Center of Excellence TCC 2012
  • 3. Real time analysis and price comparison across listings Does image size affect sales? Monitor the top Pages on our Site Search performance of specific brands by keywords and conversion rates Monitor site speed How can we identify fraudulent transaction? Impact of picture services on user experience Revenue Forecasting How does customer sentiments impact sales? Track sources of site traffic Measure quality of items listed on site Analyze buyer experience across verticals Monitor consumption of services by mobile apps Predict performance metrics for customer shipments Measure advertising performance Monitor key metrics for mobile consumption and capacity How can site trust and safety be improved? Performance of user behavior and transaction metrics
  • 4. We have been able to extract business value from BIG DATA by creating a seamless ecosystem of enterprise data, analytical tools, and collaboration - and made it pervasive! Analytics @ ebay
  • 5. Road Map… The Opportunity Analytics @ ebay Stories from the Field Looking Ahead
  • 6. Enable consumers to buy anything, anywhere, any how Enable merchants to succeed in new commerce environment (and we don’t compete with them) 8K+ vehicles and 340K 600K new customers car parts/accessories sold made first purchase in Q2 2012 each week 1.9M items listed A woman’s handbag each week purchased every 30 secs eBay’s mobile apps downloaded Over 113M active PayPal accounts over 90M times
  • 7. Useful Data 2012 ENTERPRISE DATA “SINGULARITY” HADOOP CLUSTERS WAREHOUSE Relational Data Semi-Structured Data Unstructured Data 10+ PB 42+ PB 40+ PB
  • 8. Capitalize On Our Data Shop the Create Enhance Positive World’s Inventory Enthusiasts Experiences
  • 11. 2008 Where we were Static data reports 2.6 PB EDW Excel 180K queries/day Standardized, prompted reports 1,500 active users MicroStrategy Teradata Ad-hoc analysis 27B rows in largest table SQL Assistant
  • 12. We needed a better approach  Data Democratization  Analytics Services  Self-service  Extensive Knowledge Sharing  Accelerate Time to Market
  • 13. DataHub 4.0 A Partial View VIRTUAL DATAMART ACCOUNT DATA NETWORKS TRUST DISCUSSION MANAGER PROVISION VISUALIZATION SIGNALS ENGINE DATA ENTERPRISE STATISTICAL SHARED RECMND’ MOVER REPORTING TOOLS WORKSPACES ENGINE DATA SESSION WEB PURPOSE ACTIVITY FOLLOW LOADER MONITOR ANALYTICS BUILT TOOLS STREAM DATA ACCESS SERVICES ANALYTICAL PRODUCTS COLLABORATION
  • 15. DataHub VIRTUAL TRUST DISCUSSION ACCOUNT DATA NETWORKS DATAMART SIGNALS ENGINE PROVISION VISUALIZATION MANAGER DATA ENTERPRISE STATISTICAL SHARED RECMND’ MOVER REPORTING TOOLS WORKSPACES ENGINE DATA SESSION WEB PURPOSE ACTIVITY FOLLOW LOADER MONITOR ANALYTICS BUILT TOOLS STREAM DATA ACCESS SERVICES
  • 17. DataHub VIRTUAL DATAMART ACCOUNT DATA NETWORKS TRUST DISCUSSION MANAGER PROVISION VISUALIZATION SIGNALS ENGINE DATA ENTERPRISE STATISTICAL SHARED RECMND’ MOVER REPORTING TOOLS WORKSPACES ENGINE DATA SESSION WEB PURPOSE ACTIVITY FOLLOW LOADER MONITOR ANALYTICS BUILT TOOLS STREAM ANALYTICAL PRODUCTS
  • 18. Enabling Exploration & Discovery Our Strategy  Agile  Self-Service  Universal Access  DataHub Integration  Scaled for the Enterprise
  • 19. Tableau @ ebay Gumtree.com Shopping.com BillMeLater PayPal Kijiji Marketplaats ebay ChinaServiceCenter StubHub Cdc mobile.internationalGmbH 2010-H1 2010-H2 2011-H1 2011-H2 2012-H1
  • 20. What We’ve Seen +100% +200% +300% DATA SETS PUBLISHERS REPORT USAGE EBAY TABLEAU PLATFORM KPIS
  • 22. DATAHUB Collaboration VIRTUAL ACCOUNT DATA NETWORKS TRUST DISCUSSION DATAMART PROVISION VISUALIZATION SIGNALS ENGINE MANAGER DATA ENTERPRISE STATISTICAL SHARED RECMND’ MOVER REPORTING TOOLS WORKSPACES ENGINE DATA SESSION WEB PURPOSE ACTIVITY FOLLOW LOADER MONITOR ANALYTICS BUILT TOOLS STREAM COLLABORATION
  • 23. Work Collectively Discussion Engine Expert Groups Workspaces Trust Badges
  • 24. What We Learned  It’s the data  Build it, they will come  Visionary leadership
  • 26. #1 Predicting Change Significant Search Science Team drop-off in  Improving search relevance and completion of quality on ebay.com new seller listings
  • 27. #1 Predicting Change Monitor selling registration flow and page level abandonment Singularity – data retrieval  Selling users flow path:  Users click path: Hadoop  VDM  Computation and storage Tableau  Monitor trends
  • 29. #1 Predicting Change Results & Impact  Drop-off on Review page  Required registration after Review page  Saving draft listing for later re-visit  Improved next generation C2C selling tool
  • 30. #2 Appreciating Chatter Reduce Trust Science Team bad buyer  Improving trust on ebay.com experience and increase trust
  • 31. #2 Appreciating Chatter Monitor latest customer discussions and meters sentiment Hadoop – retrieval and computation RADAR – text mining and analysis Tableau – visualize topic sentiments
  • 33. #2 Appreciating Chatter Results & Impact  Understand customer sentiments  Identify fastest growing keywords  Discover emerging topics  Timely response to negative experience
  • 35. Looking Ahead Thank you! Streaming Data Gary Dougan gdougan@ebay.com in/garydougan Self-Learning Visualizations
  • 36. DataHub: Open Source Contributions https://github.com/eBaySF/joomla-platform