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> Solution: > 1 - send us your data (probably a spreadsheet/CSV/Excel file) > 2 - we analyze the data, and send you a list of questions that we can answer/ins

by psv1 7y ago

> Solution: > 1 - send us your data (probably a spreadsheet/CSV/Excel file) > 2 - we analyze the data, and send you a list of questions that we can answer/insights that we can derive > 3 - you select which of the questions you want answered > 4 - we run our analyses and send you the results, including an explanation of the algorithms that were used to derive the results This order of points isn't quite right. The overwhelming majority of companies will already have a question that needs answering or a problem that needs solving. They will then want to know which parts of which datasets are relevant. If the existing datasets aren't enough, they consider collecting and/or purchasing more. Knowing what to collect and/or buy is another problem. Then you need to set up systems for extracting any 'insight' from what they have and continuously managing and processing data from multiple sources, and so on and so on. No one is really sitting with a single csv file open in front of them, thinking "Hmm if only someone would tell me what I can do with this".

vincentinverso 7y ago
> Then you need to set up systems for extracting any 'insight' from what they have and continuously managing and processing data from multiple sources, and so on and so on. Agreed, this is quite tricky. The solution I described lends itself much better to one-off analyses, thus limiting its usefulness. > No one is really sitting with a single csv file open in front of them, thinking "Hmm if only someone would tell me what I can do with this". Yea, most people don't do this. I think the target user would likely be someone who has an ok idea of what they might want to do with their data, but needs some guidance as to what the latest and greatest techniques can actually do, given what they have. There may be a gap between what they think they can do, and what is actually possible. Or they might discover new things that they didn't think of. Perhaps this is more of a personal frustration that I've had in the past. The "single csv" issue is a concern I have as well. Many data-science-type problems of course cannot be reduced to a single csv. Thanks for the feedback!

by psv1 7y ago

vincentinverso 7y ago

> Then you need to set up systems for extracting any 'insight' from what they have and continuously managing and processing data from multiple sources, and so on and so on. Agreed, this is quite tricky. The solution I described lends itself much better to one-off analyses, thus limiting its usefulness. > No one is really sitting with a single csv file open in front of them, thinking "Hmm if only someone would tell me what I can do with this". Yea, most people don't do this. I think the target user would likely be someone who has an ok idea of what they might want to do with their data, but needs some guidance as to what the latest and greatest techniques can actually do, given what they have. There may be a gap between what they think they can do, and what is actually possible. Or they might discover new things that they didn't think of. Perhaps this is more of a personal frustration that I've had in the past. The "single csv" issue is a concern I have as well. Many data-science-type problems of course cannot be reduced to a single csv. Thanks for the feedback!