Anatomy of a Gift Recommendation Engine Powered by Social Media

Summary: An end-to-end social-media–driven gift recommender: Walmart Labs Gift Reco Engine and Shopycat. Highlights data-management challenges—inferring user interests, computing giftability, and scalable processing of big, fast social data with pragmatic evaluation metrics. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID: 4659
Venue: SIGMOD
Year: 2012
Pagerank: -
Overall Rank: 13,715 | 6.23%
DOI: 10.1145/2213836.2213950

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Authors

1. Yannis Pavlidis (Walmart Labs)
2. Arvind Batra (Walmart Labs)
3. Robert Yau (Walmart Labs)
4. Mike McKiernan (Walmart Labs)
5. Madhusudan Mathihalli (Walmart Labs)
6. Ron Benson (Walmart Labs)
7. Venky Harinarayan (Walmart Labs)
8. Indrani Chakravarty (Walmart Labs)
9. Ravi Raj (Walmart Labs)
10. Anand Rajaraman (Walmart Labs)

BibTeX Citation

@inproceedings{pavlidis_sigmod12,
        title = {{Anatomy of a Gift Recommendation Engine Powered by Social Media}},
        author = {Pavlidis, Yannis and Batra, Arvind and Yau, Robert and McKiernan, Mike and Mathihalli, Madhusudan and Benson, Ron and Harinarayan, Venky and Chakravarty, Indrani and Raj, Ravi and Rajaraman, Anand},
        series = {{SIGMOD} '12},
        booktitle = {Proceedings of the {ACM} {SIGMOD} International Conference on Management of Data},
        publisher = {Association for Computing Machinery},
        doi = {10.1145/2213836.2213950},
        url = {https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/2213836.2213950},
        year = {2012}
}

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2,389	Building, Maintaining, and Using Knowledge Bases: A Report from the Trenches	2013	SIGMOD	8.6243207e-05

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