| Anyone know about e-comm and machine learning? Long shot 16:34 - Nov 11 with 818 views | giant_stow |
A punter's been flogged a machine learning 'reccomendation engine' and isnow gettng the heebeejeebees about the access they've granted, so asked me to check it.
The company claim their engine is taking some time (many days) to learn the shopping habits of her customers - does this sound real to you? SOunds like bollox to me given there's loads of past data to go on she's only shifting maybe 5 products a day, especially as it'll probably just produce a list of personalised reccomended products as an end results.
Sorry if this is borring, stupid, piss-takey or all 3.
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| Anyone know about e-comm and machine learning? Long shot on 16:45 - Nov 11 with 777 views | ipswich78 |
Plenty of experience in eCommerce but limited on machine learning. What's the name of the platform and i'll take a look? I have reviewed some myself but not bitten the bullet just yet (number of reasons!) but it does seem to be quite a consistent method that it does take time to build up data as opposed to looking back. It could be down to how the software is built as it will be based on a lot more than just their purchasing history. |  |
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| Anyone know about e-comm and machine learning? Long shot on 16:51 - Nov 11 with 767 views | giant_stow |
| Anyone know about e-comm and machine learning? Long shot on 16:45 - Nov 11 by ipswich78 |
Plenty of experience in eCommerce but limited on machine learning. What's the name of the platform and i'll take a look? I have reviewed some myself but not bitten the bullet just yet (number of reasons!) but it does seem to be quite a consistent method that it does take time to build up data as opposed to looking back. It could be down to how the software is built as it will be based on a lot more than just their purchasing history. |
THanks for the replying mr - I'm not sure I should name them publically as I've cast doubt on their reputation and their a startup in any case - Eeek! Good that it all sounds familiar to you, as a process at least. | |
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| Anyone know about e-comm and machine learning? Long shot on 16:53 - Nov 11 with 754 views | ipswich78 |
| Anyone know about e-comm and machine learning? Long shot on 16:51 - Nov 11 by giant_stow |
THanks for the replying mr - I'm not sure I should name them publically as I've cast doubt on their reputation and their a startup in any case - Eeek! Good that it all sounds familiar to you, as a process at least. |
Could you send me their details by PM as i'd be interested in taking a look for myself. | |
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| Anyone know about e-comm and machine learning? Long shot on 16:54 - Nov 11 with 748 views | eireblue |
She is only selling five products a day, total?
Is that correct? |  | | |
| Anyone know about e-comm and machine learning? Long shot on 16:54 - Nov 11 with 748 views | footers |
With such limited data available, sounds like she's been stitched up. You'd need a much larger dataset than that for ML to be truly effective, I think I'm right in saying. |  |
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| Anyone know about e-comm and machine learning? Long shot on 16:58 - Nov 11 with 736 views | giant_stow |
| Anyone know about e-comm and machine learning? Long shot on 16:54 - Nov 11 by eireblue |
She is only selling five products a day, total?
Is that correct? |
yeah give or take, on average. | |
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| Anyone know about e-comm and machine learning? Long shot on 17:13 - Nov 11 with 720 views | eireblue |
| Anyone know about e-comm and machine learning? Long shot on 16:58 - Nov 11 by giant_stow |
yeah give or take, on average. |
See footers reply above.
Obvs don’t need to go into details.
But with such a small dataset, what are the chances of say boosting sales by 20%?
Or one extra order a day.
How much is it costing to get that one extra order, by using an ML product, with very little data.
How much is that one order worth.
Maybe more sensible talking to some like Callis about getting more people to the web site. I think he used to do something in that area. | | | |
| Anyone know about e-comm and machine learning? Long shot on 17:17 - Nov 11 with 718 views | footers |
| Anyone know about e-comm and machine learning? Long shot on 17:13 - Nov 11 by eireblue |
See footers reply above.
Obvs don’t need to go into details.
But with such a small dataset, what are the chances of say boosting sales by 20%?
Or one extra order a day.
How much is it costing to get that one extra order, by using an ML product, with very little data.
How much is that one order worth.
Maybe more sensible talking to some like Callis about getting more people to the web site. I think he used to do something in that area. |
Exactly. This lady sounds like she's been sold quite an expensive kipper when really what she needs is to put money into SEO, paid search and the like to increase traffic. I doubt most SMEs would ever really need ML for their sites. | |
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| Anyone know about e-comm and machine learning? Long shot on 17:40 - Nov 11 with 700 views | giant_stow |
| Anyone know about e-comm and machine learning? Long shot on 17:17 - Nov 11 by footers |
Exactly. This lady sounds like she's been sold quite an expensive kipper when really what she needs is to put money into SEO, paid search and the like to increase traffic. I doubt most SMEs would ever really need ML for their sites. |
You're all good people.
This is sound advice.
In return, I'm always on the look out to help anyone with low grade web grunt advice should they need it, but I have the feeling that that sort of thing is easier to come by than machine learning queries! | |
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| Anyone know about e-comm and machine learning? Long shot on 17:54 - Nov 11 with 681 views | TractorWood |
| Anyone know about e-comm and machine learning? Long shot on 17:17 - Nov 11 by footers |
Exactly. This lady sounds like she's been sold quite an expensive kipper when really what she needs is to put money into SEO, paid search and the like to increase traffic. I doubt most SMEs would ever really need ML for their sites. |
Also at the risk of being cynical a huge amount of software out there claims to have AI or machine learning when in reality it's just doing trial and error on simple calculations. The concept that a computer can solve all your problems is an appealing one but if you sit down and test these advanced functions they rarely (at least in my experience) live up to the pitch.
An interesting article on AI winter https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.bbc.com/news/amp/technology-51064369 [Post edited 11 Nov 2020 17:58]
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| Anyone know about e-comm and machine learning? Long shot on 18:05 - Nov 11 with 657 views | footers |
| Anyone know about e-comm and machine learning? Long shot on 17:54 - Nov 11 by TractorWood |
Also at the risk of being cynical a huge amount of software out there claims to have AI or machine learning when in reality it's just doing trial and error on simple calculations. The concept that a computer can solve all your problems is an appealing one but if you sit down and test these advanced functions they rarely (at least in my experience) live up to the pitch.
An interesting article on AI winter https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.bbc.com/news/amp/technology-51064369 [Post edited 11 Nov 2020 17:58]
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There are a lot of charlatans out there.
We unfortunately did business with some once. New business, helping a mate out. The investor didn't do his due diligence and the tech company we'd got in to do the work turned out to be scammers.
Think he lost out a good few hundred k before he found out. Not my money, obviously, but a sickener and something to remind people to be careful with stuff like AI/ML/blockchain if they don't know anything about it.
Sounds too good to be true? Probably is. | |
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| Anyone know about e-comm and machine learning? Long shot on 16:25 - Nov 12 with 524 views | ipswich78 |
| Anyone know about e-comm and machine learning? Long shot on 16:54 - Nov 11 by eireblue |
She is only selling five products a day, total?
Is that correct? |
Ah, I didn't even see that detail when I scan read the opening post! Yes, 100% this. Nowhere near enough data to get any useful output. | |
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| Anyone know about e-comm and machine learning? Long shot on 16:53 - Nov 12 with 492 views | DanTheMan |
| Anyone know about e-comm and machine learning? Long shot on 16:54 - Nov 11 by footers |
With such limited data available, sounds like she's been stitched up. You'd need a much larger dataset than that for ML to be truly effective, I think I'm right in saying. |
Yeah, waaaaaaaaaaaaaay more. You won't get anything off this, and anything you would get would be close to useless. |  |
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| Anyone know about e-comm and machine learning? Long shot on 17:42 - Nov 12 with 470 views | monytowbray |
DM me the company! SEO on multiple eComm sites and I understand ML as a concept. |  |
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| Anyone know about e-comm and machine learning? Long shot on 17:55 - Nov 12 with 466 views | Swansea_Blue |
| Anyone know about e-comm and machine learning? Long shot on 16:54 - Nov 11 by footers |
With such limited data available, sounds like she's been stitched up. You'd need a much larger dataset than that for ML to be truly effective, I think I'm right in saying. |
So it probably is working, but with so low volume she'll have to wait 70 years for the results? |  |
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