# How Shopify Uses Recommender Systems to Empower Entrepreneurs

DevFeed: [How Shopify Uses Recommender Systems to Empower Entrepreneurs](<https://devfeed.tech/articles/how-shopify-uses-recommender-systems-to-empower-entrepreneurs-1421.md>)

Original publisher: [Read original article](<https://shopify.engineering/how-shopify-uses-recommender-systems-to-empower-entrepreneurs>)

Author: Dora Jambor

Published: 2019-01-25T17:44:00Z

Content type: article

Language: en

Sources: [Shopify Engineering](<https://devfeed.tech/sources/shopify-engineering.md>), [Shopify Engineering - Shopify Engineering](<https://devfeed.tech/sources/shopify-engineering-shopify-engineering.md>)

Topics: [recommendation systems](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/recommendation-systems.md>), [Shopify](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/shopify.md>), [data](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/data.md>), [systems](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/systems.md>)

Tags: [data](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/data.md>), [ranking](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/ranking.md>), [shopify](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/shopify.md>)

## AI overview

Shopify explains how it uses recommender systems to give merchants personalized insights, actions, tools, resources, apps, themes, and other content. The article introduces collaborative filtering and user-item interactions derived from signals such as purchases, installations, clicks, and views.

## Source excerpt

Authors: Dóra Jámbor and Chen Karako There is a good chance you have come across a "recommended for you" statement somewhere in our data-driven world. This may be while shopping on Amazon, hunting for new tracks on Spotify, looking to decide what restaurant to go to on Yelp, or browsing through your Facebook feed -- ranking and recommender systems are an extremely important feature of our day-to-day interactions.