Supervised Learning and its Challenges
The Measurement Minute by Gary Angel There's a lot of hype about ML - some of it deserved. But when you look at it closely, almost all of the techniques that really matter in ML fall int...
Breaking Up Is Hard to Do
The Measurement Minute w. Gary Angel The evolution of big tech didn't go the way most of us expected. And the creation of giant monopolists (or monopsonists) creates real issues for publ...
Why Machines Learn Faster AND Slower than You Do
The Measurement Minute with Gary Angel When you see ML programs beating the world's best chess or Go players, it's easy to assume that machines are faster learners than people. They're r...
When Machine Learning Works
The Measurement Minute with Gary Angel : When Machine Learning Works Machine Learning (ML) has some signal successes. But maybe not in your enterprise. That could be because you suck at ...
Floors and Boundaries and GeoLocation, Oh My
One of the real pain-points with electronic-based geo-location is separating out pass-by traffic from shoppers IN the store and handling multi-floor locations. This seems trivial, but it isn’t. Itâ...
Previewing an Analytics Journey
The Measurement Minute with Gary Angel : Previewing an Analytics Journey at the JPK Forecasting Summit I'm bringing one of my favorite presentations to a Conference that I've been speaki...
Prepping Geo-Location Data for Machine Learning
In my last two posts, I described the techniques we used to create and enhance an ML data set for supervised learning. In my next post, we finally get to the really fun stuff – building models. But...
Ugly isn’t always a dirty word : The Measurement Minute #49 w. Gary Angel
The Measurement Minute #49 with Gary Angel : Ugly Isn't Always a Dirty Word A recent article in Slate magazine on the Trump campaigns brutally ugly emails not only brought a lump of nost...
Retiring the “Organizations that Do X are Y% more likely to be Z” Business Trope : The Measurement Minute #48 w. Gary Angel
The Measurement Minute #48 with Gary Angel : Retiring the "Organizations that Do X are Y% more likely to be Z" Business Trope The X,Y,Z trope is a stock in trade of Analyst firms. But ev...