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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...

March 21, 2019

By Gary Angel

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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...

March 19, 2019

By Gary Angel

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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...

March 18, 2019

By Gary Angel

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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...

March 14, 2019

By Gary Angel

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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 ...

March 5, 2019

By Gary Angel

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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...

March 1, 2019

By Gary Angel

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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...

February 26, 2019

By Gary Angel

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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...

February 25, 2019

By Gary Angel

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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 ...

February 20, 2019

By Gary Angel

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