Posts Tagged ‘algorithm’
Winners and losers
TL;DR Standardised tests like A Levels will inevitably have winners and losers, and in normal circumstances those people will usually know why they won or lost. For the losers it’s likely that they experienced some bad luck; but the key point here is that experience – they know why things didn’t work out. When that […]
Filed under: wibble | 1 Comment
Tags: A-Level, algorithm, exams, GCSE, losers, luck, Ofqual, testing, winners
For a little while I’ve been experiencing lousy service from my credit card providers, and judging by what I hear from others I’m far from alone on this. The level of false positives from card company fraud detection systems has reached a point where it’s creating a bad customer experience, and it often seems that ‘common sense’ […]
Filed under: could_do_better, grumble, travel | 1 Comment
Tags: algorithm, analytics, big data, card, convenience, customer, customer experience, customer service, data, fraud, gas, social, travel
Big Data – a little analysis
This post was inspired by a conversation I had with a VC friend a few weeks back, just as he was about to head out to the Structure conference that would be covering this topic. Big Data seems to be one of the huge industry buzz phrases at the moment. From the marketing it would […]
Filed under: technology | 2 Comments
Tags: algorithm, analytics, big data, complexity, quant
What happened on Jun 14th?
For quite a while this blog has been getting around 250 readers a day. That suddenly changed on Jun 14th: My first thought is that my search rankings have changed, and I read something not so long ago that Google was going to (once again) change how blogs appear in search rankings. I don’t do […]
Filed under: blogging, this blog | 5 Comments
Tags: algorithm, google, Jun 14, popular, rankings, search, SEO, statistics, stats
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