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The Automatic Statistician: An artificial intelligence for data science

• ForHackernews 12y ago
  This is pretty cool, but looking at their sample reports, it doesn't actually seem to tell you anything about what the data means. There's a lot of "We identified a time series variation as shown below..."
• rch 12y ago
  > By submitting data to this demo you are agreeing that we can do anything with the data. We may store it, process it, make it public, anything. This makes it difficult to do much in the way of assessment.
• brandonb 12y ago
  This is pretty cool! A small feature request: I uploaded data with a combination of continuous features and discrete features (which happened to be coded as numbers—2 or 1—with negative numbers used to indicate various cases was missing). I'm pretty sure the model interpreted the discrete features as continuous. I think it'd be good to add a detector for numerical fields that take on a small number of values, and convert those to binary features. Likewise, non-linear models. I know my data has a lot of internal structure and so a tree, neural network, etc. would capture a lot more of the variance.