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Re:Google starts tracking what people buy in physical stores by bbcbasic on Wednesday May 24, 2017 @06:13AM (#14408863)
If they can still make predictions based on a partial dataset it's better than nothing and probably profitable to use. Chuck some linear regression or similar at it.
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Re:Google starts tracking what people buy in physical stores by TeMPOraL on Wednesday May 24, 2017 @09:01AM (#14409676)
Also in this particular example, they could probably compute that your junk food shopping doesn't account for your daily calories intake.
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