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I have all this data that I collect and it's very difficult to make sense of it or to break it down into a form that tells me what steps I should be taking next

I have all this data that I collect and it's very difficult to make sense of it or to break it down into a form that tells me what steps I should be taking next to improve my bottom line.

mstevens 17y ago
We have similar problems. For example, I'm fairly certain some sort of bayesian model could tell me valuable things about my data. Someone who could run with that provide me an automated way to extract probabilities of desirable outcomes from my data would get money very quickly.
- mnemonicsloth 17y ago
  It's kind of hard to put Bayesian Data Analysis into boxes and sell it :-) Even so, email me if you want to talk about it. You too, Max.
keefe 17y ago
http://academicearth.org/courses/machine-learning http://academicearth.org/courses/machine-learning ?
corruption 17y ago
I have the product you need sitting in version control. We never released it to market because when we went to start marketing it, it seemed too difficult to go up against the big guys so we scrapped it and integrated it into a product where it's in use to this day. How would you market a product like this?
- maxklein 17y ago
  The difficulty in this market is that each business has a different need. Each business has different data and requires different information. So I'd break this up into individual plugins that just work, and that handle a specific problem. So I send my data into your system, and you have different pipelines I can send the data into that provide me with different intelligence things. And then afterwards, just approach all the business in the niche directly.
  - corruption 17y ago
    Yes, its so hard to target a product like this. I think we'll just leave it sitting in version control, as I'm not passionate about solving industry specific problems other than the ones we built it for! :P
ssp 17y ago
What kinds of data are you collecting? I have sometimes wondered whether the concept of a profiler could be applied outside programming. I'll bet if you put all expenses of an average big company into a profiler (plug: such as sysprof), you'd find tons of things that could be cut. Though I guess this is what operations research was supposed to do.

I have all this data that I collect and it's very difficult to make sense of it or to break it down into a form that tells me what steps I should be taking next to improve my bottom line.

mstevens 17y ago

We have similar problems. For example, I'm fairly certain some sort of bayesian model could tell me valuable things about my data. Someone who could run with that provide me an automated way to extract probabilities of desirable outcomes from my data would get money very quickly.

mnemonicsloth 17y ago
It's kind of hard to put Bayesian Data Analysis into boxes and sell it :-) Even so, email me if you want to talk about it. You too, Max.

keefe 17y ago

http://academicearth.org/courses/machine-learning http://academicearth.org/courses/machine-learning ?

corruption 17y ago

I have the product you need sitting in version control. We never released it to market because when we went to start marketing it, it seemed too difficult to go up against the big guys so we scrapped it and integrated it into a product where it's in use to this day. How would you market a product like this?

maxklein 17y ago
The difficulty in this market is that each business has a different need. Each business has different data and requires different information. So I'd break this up into individual plugins that just work, and that handle a specific problem. So I send my data into your system, and you have different pipelines I can send the data into that provide me with different intelligence things. And then afterwards, just approach all the business in the niche directly.
- corruption 17y ago
  Yes, its so hard to target a product like this. I think we'll just leave it sitting in version control, as I'm not passionate about solving industry specific problems other than the ones we built it for! :P

ssp 17y ago

What kinds of data are you collecting? I have sometimes wondered whether the concept of a profiler could be applied outside programming. I'll bet if you put all expenses of an average big company into a profiler (plug: such as sysprof), you'd find tons of things that could be cut. Though I guess this is what operations research was supposed to do.