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Title
HOMER unifies student data on Databricks to personalize early childhood learning
…st amounts of information, but it was disorganized, disparate and inaccessible. HOMER needed a unified foundation to power their vision of a learning experience personalized to the needs of their young learners. On top of disparate data, the teams at HOMER lacked a way to work together in o…
Description
HOMER, an early childhood education company, built a unified data lake on Databricks in six months (versus up to two years on other platforms) to consolidate hundreds of millions of monthly event transactions, using Delta Lake for ETL pipelines and MLflow to build churn and engagement models in about six weeks, driving a 1%-5% increase in conversions with an estimated revenue impact of up to $20 million.
…l with a vision to aggregate all data in a way that made it usable by everyone. The process of getting a data lake up and running can often take up to two years with other platforms, but HOMER was ready in just six months with Databricks. Once HOMER integrated the Databricks Data + AI Platform, the power of speed and…
Company
HOMER
…rity and Trust Ready to get started? Get a Demo Login Contact Us Try Databricks Customer Stories / HOMER CUSTOMER STORY Closing the early education gap with data Up to $20M Increase in…
Industry
Education
…the future is bright for both HOMER and their students. Share this post Details Industry : Education , Public Sector Use Case : Data Science , Data Engineering Cloud : AWS Product : Delta Lake , A…
Problem
HOMER had vast amounts of digitally native product data that was disorganized, disparate and inaccessible, with no unified foundation to power a personalized learning experience; teams also lacked a way to collaborate, leading to duplicated work on the same problems.
…eps are.” In order to achieve this tricky goal, HOMER needed a system overhaul. As a digitally native company, they had vast amounts of information, but it was disorganized, disparate and inaccessible. HOMER needed a unified foundation to power their vision of a learning experienc…
Solution
HOMER built a unified data lake on the Databricks Data + AI Platform in just six months, using Delta Lake to centralize access to hundreds of millions of monthly event transactions and power ETL pipelines, then used MLflow to accelerate delivery of churn and conversion models to production.
…d machine learning necessary to enable their personalized learning experiences. With MLflow, they can accelerate the delivery of these models to production. Now, HOMER has a better understanding of their students, including their lifeti…
Technology
Delta Lake, MLflow, Agent Bricks
…said Jin. “This has been key to unlocking so much of our mission’s potential.” Delta Lake not only provides them with the ability to centralize access to all of their data, but it powers highly performant and reliable ETL pipelines for downstream analytics and machine learning necessary to enable their persona…
Use case type
Predictive operations
…that have helped shape their targeting strategies to improve student learning. “A better understanding of the student drove the early models we built on Databricks,” said Neerav. “Once we got our data onto Delta Lake, we started building the m…
Headline outcome
…v. With Databricks helping drive anywhere from a 1%–5% increase in conversions, the estimated impact on revenue is upward of $20 million and growing. Needless to say, with data and AI powering their learning services to children…
Business value
HOMER can now see student lifetime value and key conversion and churn moments, informing targeting strategies; a 1%-5% increase in conversions is estimated to have an impact on revenue of upward of $20 million and growing, with $2-4 million in revenue per point of increased engagement on paid offerings.
…on their top line. “Increasing engagement on our paid offerings is critical, as we can see on average $2–$4 million in revenue per point,” concluded Neerav. With Databricks helping drive anywhere from a 1%–5% increas…
AI capabilities
Predictive Analytics, Recommendation & Personalization
…w they should interact with students to mitigate the potential loss, as well as obtain learnings that have helped shape their targeting strategies to improve student learning. “A better understanding of the student drove the early models we built on Data…
Deployment options
cloud
…Industry : Education , Public Sector Use Case : Data Science , Data Engineering Cloud : AWS Product : Delta Lake , Agent Bricks Ready to get started? Try Databricks for fr…
