Our company mulled the idea of doing a similar product for years. Essentially putting a pretty UI on top of machine learning algorithms under the hood where you automatically determine which algo gives the best fit.
Ultimately shelved it because we couldn't find a good customer fit. For corporate enterprise users, our usual bread & butter, this has to be super secure so the idea of uploading gigs of proprietary company data or customer data rings alarm bells. Plus the data has to be cleaned up and ready to go. It just seemed like a lot of leg work before you even got to the payoff - and even then, having to explain why the predictive results weren't 100% accurate etc.
Curious to see how this plays out. I wonder if they're using vowpal-wabbit under the hood - I believe the guy behind that worked / works at MSFT.
Ultimately shelved it because we couldn't find a good customer fit. For corporate enterprise users, our usual bread & butter, this has to be super secure so the idea of uploading gigs of proprietary company data or customer data rings alarm bells. Plus the data has to be cleaned up and ready to go. It just seemed like a lot of leg work before you even got to the payoff - and even then, having to explain why the predictive results weren't 100% accurate etc.
Curious to see how this plays out. I wonder if they're using vowpal-wabbit under the hood - I believe the guy behind that worked / works at MSFT.