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...
Don’t be a Friggin Moron – Choosing a Cloud Provider for Retailers : The Measurement Minute #47 w. Gary Angel
The Measurement Minute #47 with Gary Angel : Don't be a Friggin Moron - Choosing a Cloud Provider for Retail Some IT decisions aren't really about IT. And if you're a retailer, choosing ...
Building a Data Factory for ML Learning
There’s a rich history around the idea of data augmentation for Machine Learning. If you have a library of images you want to train a model on, you can use simple image manipulation techniques to c...