Theodore Meynard
Theodore Meynard is a data science manager at GetYourGuide.He leads the evolution of their ranking algorithm, helping customers to find the best activities to book and locations to explore. Beyond work, he is one of the co-organizers of the Pydata Berlin meetup and the conference. When he is not programming, he loves riding his bike and looking for the best bakery-patisserie in town.
Session
New items in a marketplace have no behavioral signals. Ranking models ignore them. They never get booked. They never get signals. The loop never breaks.
This talk is a three-year, experiment-driven journey to break that loop: what we tried, what failed, and what ultimately worked. You'll leave with a reusable blueprint for solving cold start in any ranking or recommendation system.