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Walmart is the largest retailer in the world and
the world’s largest company by revenue, with
more than 2 million employees and 20,000
stores in 28 countries.
5. Why Big Data?
○ To make Walmart pharmacies more efficient
○ To improve store checkout
○ To manage the steps of supply chain
○ To optimise product assortment
○ To personalise the shopping experience
6. What data is
analyzes?
○ What consumers buy in-store and online?
○ What is trending on twitter?
○ Local events happening in the world
○ Effect of local weather on buying patterns?
9. How much data
Walmart has?
○ Walmart collects 2.5 petabytes of
unstructured data from 1 million customers
every hour
○ Walmart made a move from the experiential
10 node Hadoop cluster to a 250 node
Hadoop cluster in 2012
○ Walmart has data of close to 145 million
Americans of which 60% data is of US adults
11. Achievements
○ Launching new products became predictive
○ Better future context using the predictive data
○ Customized recommendations to increase sales
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