Categorizing User Sessions at Pinterest
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چکیده
Di erent users can use a given Internet application in many different ways. The ability to record detailed event logs of user inapplication activity allows us to discover ways in which the application is being used. This enables personalization and also leads to important insights with actionable business and product outcomes. Here we study the problem of user session categorization, where the goal is to automatically discover categories/classes of user insession behavior using event logs, and then consistently categorize each user session into the discovered classes. We develop a three stage approach which uses clustering to discover categories of sessions, then builds classi ers to classify new sessions into the discovered categories, and nally performs daily classi cation in a distributed pipeline. An important innovation of our approach is selecting a set of events as long-tail features, and replacing them with a new feature that is less sensitive to product experimentation and logging changes. This allows for robust and stable identi cation of session types even though the underlying application is constantly changing. We deploy the approach to Pinterest and demonstrate its e ectiveness. We discover insights that have consequences for product monetization, growth, and design. Our solution classi es millions of user sessions daily and leads to actionable insights.
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عنوان ژورنال:
- CoRR
دوره abs/1703.09662 شماره
صفحات -
تاریخ انتشار 2017