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I'm much more enthusiastic. (see other comment)

More over, picking new categories is a great application of "big data".

Real example:

Imagine catalog for fashion retailer. Time to add color picker & filter. No agreement on color names, how many shades of gray, etc.

So one of our big data gurus figures it out. Gather dozens of palettes. Social cognition style guessing game. Slice & dice our product catalog 100s of ways to get best fit.

Result was a thing of beauty. Truly novel. The analysis worthy of a PhD.




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