Re:Boosting Sales with Machine Learning
by taneq on Wednesday June 08, 2016 @09:10AM
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What's "enough" depends entirely on what you're doing with it and how much accuracy you require. In this case, 86% was enough to improves their batting average and so was worth using.
If they were trying to detect pedestrians from a self-driving car then they'd need a lot more accuracy and so a lot more training data.
Re:Boosting Sales with Machine Learning
by visarga on Wednesday June 08, 2016 @09:32AM
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86% accurate should be a solid 7x speedup compared to manual selection, not to mention that the algo could also pre-populate description fields and only require a visual check-up instead of manual typing.
If they were trying to detect pedestrians from a self-driving car then they'd need a lot more accuracy and so a lot more training data.