Algorithmic Trendspotting & the Meaning of “Interesting” April 13th, 2012 Nelson Ray One challenging analytics problem that we work on at Metamarkets is anomaly detection: given a sea of trends, how do you surface the most important ones? In the era of big data, filters are necessary to prevent drowning users in a torrent of information. Surfacing only the starkest deviations from the expected b
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