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Giving Your ML a Helping Hand with Meta-data : The Measurement Minute #42 w. Gary Angel

The Measurement Minute #42 with Gary Angel : Giving Your ML a Helping Hand with Meta-data   Adding context and data based on your existing data is a technique as old as analytics. Just bec...

February 5, 2019

By Gary Angel

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Bringing Machine Learning to Store Analytics

Over the last six months we’ve aggressively re-engineered one of the key processes in our business to be Machine-Learning based. We use a variety of vendor technologies to collect data about shoppe...

January 31, 2019

By Gary Angel

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Making Small Data Sets BIGGER : The Measurement Minute #41 w. Gary Angel

The Measurement Minute #41 with Gary Angel : Making Small Data Sets BIGGER   Supervised Learning data sets are often hard to come by and have to be created manually. That often means they ...

January 31, 2019

By Gary Angel

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Real Analysts Don’t Complain About Too Much Data : The Measurement Minute #40 w. Gary Angel

The Measurement Minute #40 with Gary Angel : Small Data Sets are the Real Plague of an Analyst's Existence   We hear a lot about having too much data. But not from analysts - and particula...

January 28, 2019

By Gary Angel

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ML is Deceptively Powerful and Powerfully Deceptive : The Measurement Minute #39 w. Gary Angel

The Measurement Minute #39 with Gary Angel : ML is Deceptively Powerful and Powerfully Deceptive   The most important thing to understand about ML isn't so much how powerful it is but how ...

December 4, 2018

By Gary Angel

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ML is Changing the Role of the Analyst : The Measurement Minute #38 w. Gary Angel

The Measurement Minute #38 with Gary Angel : ML is Changing the Role of the Analyst   Most data analytics folks aren't ML experts. And like just about everyone else, they're worried about ...

December 4, 2018

By Gary Angel

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Giving Thanks : The Measurement Minute #37 w. Gary Angel

The Measurement Minute #37 with Gary Angel : A Brief Thanksgiving Interlude   Ahh snap! The Measurement Minute goes all sappy and philosophical on Thanksgiving. But don't worry, it will be...

November 22, 2018

By Gary Angel

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Information is Beautiful…Is Insight? : The Measurement Minute #36 w. Gary Angel

The Measurement Minute #36 with Gary Angel : Information is Beautiful...Is Insight?   The 2018 Information is Beautiful Awards have their nominating class - and there are some real knock-o...

November 13, 2018

By Gary Angel

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Tis the Season to Crush Our Forecasts : The Measurement Minute #34 w. Gary Angel

The Measurement Minute #34 with Gary Angel : Tis the Season to Crush our Forecasts   Seasonality is everywhere and nowhere is it more important than at Digital Mortar where retail is our f...

November 8, 2018

By Gary Angel

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