Big Data Innovation
Using Data Science to Drive Growth

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Big data

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Big data

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Data science

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Data science

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Big data ?

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Data science
   PLUS
  Velocity
  Variety
  Volume
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Data introductions...
But first science




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        Nilan Peiris
           CMTO
Disruptive tehcnolognogyst
     Chief Marketing
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  Technology Officer
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£200m
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£200m
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30 year old
 start up
We believe
holidays should be hassle-free.
32m Trips
Our role in the holiday value chain.

                                 Parking   Insurance     Books



           the most efficient
                way of            Hotels      FX        Car Hire




Customer   monetising trips on
             the internet.
                                 Lounges   Ski Hire    Essentials
A holiday engine.
     A platform
Why
We ♥science
      Data
✦ 3 practical examples
Data science
 3 practical examples...




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1. Speed

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Why
speed ?
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“every 100 ms (thatʼs 1
    tenth of a second)
 increase in page load
  time of Amazon.com
decreased sales by 1%”
2. Matching products to
      customers



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Size ?
How do you match
       Size ?
customers to products ?
Recommendation


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Personalisation
Recommendation


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Segmentation


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Data science
Segmentation


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Personalisation
Size ?


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Personalisation
Personalisation
Personalisation


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Car
registration
                          Product
                           type




               Customer



    flikr
                          house
Decision trees


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Bayesian
statistics
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Graph
databases
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Car
registration
                          Credit
                          Card




               Customer



  Email
 Address                  house
3. Conversion
3 million
customers
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30 million
 visitors
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200 million
  clicks
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Why are we
down / up?
GA picture
0 USER JOURNEY!
 Only 6.3% of customers who enter the funnel from
 airport hotel pages end up converting!

                Holiday Extras domain!              Commentary!                                                    Performance!

                    Availability page!                 1 in 7 visitors proceed to the upgrades page!
                                                               !  lack of information?!
                          15%!                                 !  lack of urgency?!

                       Upgrades!
                                                 Almost all proceed to the payment page!
                          98%!                         !  Performing well !
                                                       !  Can additional upgrades be presented to increase order
                                                       value which may offset the impact of conversion rates?!
                       Payment!

                          43%!            Just under 1 in 2 then proceed to make a payment!
                                                 !  Suggests the payment form is performing very well!
                     Confirmation!

                                              Summary!
                                              At present only 6.3% of users who enter the funnel make a purchase. The
                Total funnel efficiency!
                                              largest hurdle is on the availability page where only 15% make it through to the
                         6.3%!                next phase.!

       We therefore focus our recommendations on the availability page in order to prevent customers falling out of
       the funnel at the availability page, there are a number of solutions:!
       a)  Provide user with sufficient information to assist in the decision process !
       b)  Provide user with clear steps to purchase so that they are able to clearly understand where they are in
           the funnel!
Why ?

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Causality !

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Qualatitive data +
Quantiative data =
   Causality


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Exit survey
nformation!
e more        Sample feedback!
rmation.!     Images!                         13%!
              “Cant see a picture of the hotel. I like to
              see what I am getting not just have the
was more      symbols for the ameneties”!

              Descriptions and Info!          65%!
roduct        “cant find enough info about the
              undercover hotel”!

              Extras!                         21%!
down by       “for early flights, would be useful to see
              times of transfers. also info as to how to
              get to hotel if travelling by train.”!
✦recap
Data Recap....
     science
Capture    Slice
 data      data




Launch    Innovate



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✦recap
  A 3 step action plan
Data TODAY !start
      science
  you should
1. Recruit data scientists
   2. Store everything
3. Start playing with your
            data

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Extras

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