Data and Product and Tech, Oh My!
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Rent the Runway describes a deployed product called Runway plus a Women like me matching feature that reduces 100,000 possible size/age/height/bust combinations to 864 vectors by bucketing height bust and age while keeping dress size exact and this makes front end filtering fast and useful. A live experiment lowering prices raises demand and leads to a production demand forecasting model that outputs weekend price ranges (for example $70–$85) and drives pricing decisions.
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