Gefilter Fish: Finding concise topics from Amazon's customer reviews

Patrick Lestrange was an Insight Data Science Fellow (Winter 2018) from Insight's second Seattle session. In his first four weeks at Insight, he built a Chrome extension for Amazon customers to easily identify useful topics in customer reviews. Previously, Patrick was a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Washington, where he also received his PhD in Chemistry in May 2017. He is now a Data Scientist at Boeing, working on pilot-less airplanes. Like over 75% of Americans, I do most of my shopping online with Amazon in part because their wealth of product reviews allows me to make smart choices as a consumer. These product reviews are a great way to qualitatively assess different features of a product.