The Surprising Role for Humans in Creating ML Training Data
The Measurement Minute with Gary Angel Creating training data for ML can be really hard. That's why you should consider using the data you have to generate more. Check out the full blog ...
ML Use-Cases without a Baked-in Outcome : Geolocation and Associate Detection
The Measurement Minute with Gary Angel The use-cases we here at Digital Mortar have pushed on with ML all involve business problems where we don't have defined outcome in our data. In th...
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...
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. It�...
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...
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 ...