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Granularity
Toronto, Ontario, Canada
RF
CoFounder and CTO
(6)
3
Preferred learners
  • Anywhere
  • Academic experience or paid work
Categories
Computer science & it Cloud technologies Machine learning Artificial intelligence Databases
Project scope
What is the main goal for this project?

TrendsDecoder is a consumer trends intelligence platform that helps you understand the trends that are shaping the future of your industry. Granularity is a cutting edge AI startup based out of Toronto, ON that aims to bring consumer data to retail decisions.


We're constantly investing in R&D to implement new AI and ML technologies on our consumer trend data collected from Google, TikTok, Instagram, Amazon and others.


The main goal of this project is to assist in the data science development project for Trends Decoder. This may include LLM training, forecasting training (i.e. Prophet), virality modelling of social posts, topic modelling, or sentiment analysis.



What tasks will learners need to complete to achieve the project goal?

Learners will need to:


  • Meet twice per week with the Granularity team
  • Code independently in big data languages (one of PySpark, SQL, or Scala)
  • Commit working code to Github repository
How will you support learners in completing the project?
  • Dedicated 30 minutes 1-1 with Founding team member
  • Twice a week team meetings
  • Pair programming with CTO or Data Science Lead
  • Access to real consumer data
  • Access to Databricks environment for coding and a cluster to code with
What skills or technologies will help learners to complete the project?
  • Intermediate coding skills in Python
  • Big data basic understanding (Spark, Databricks)
  • Cloud basic understanding (Azure)
  • CI/CD basic understanding (Github / Git)
Supported causes
Industry, innovation and infrastructure
About the company

Granularity empowers product owners to foresee viral trends with our AI-powered dashboard. Have you noticed crazy trends that swarm social media?
We drive insights from Tiktok, Instagram, Google Searches and others - and feed them directly to demand planners, marketers, inventory planners and stakeholders to action.

Granularity's web dashboard uses the power of artificial intelligence and live data from Tiktok, Instagram, Google and others to provide you with insights into which products are trending and which are on the decline.

We're innovating how retailers use consumer trends and would love for you to join the team.