Esthetic. Marketing. Potent Quotables. A Human Voice. Data Miners Blog. Pepsiland. Manage » Social Media » PostRank. Jeff Jonas. Once a year, on its birthday, I say a few words about my G2 project. Three years ago today, G2 was made public on International Privacy Day in 2011. With two years of secret “skunk works” development before that; G2 is now five years in the making. It is no small endeavor. More background on G2 | Sensemaking can be found here. I get asked from time-to-time to describe what makes G2 different. 1.
Systems that make decisions about “when things are the same or related” generally require lots of data for training and/or experts to dictate very domain specific rules. Principle-based context accumulation is a new technique to determine “when things are the same or related” that requires neither training data nor experts. Preparing G2 to make sense of new data sources, new entity types and new features will often take less than ten minutes. How? Frequency: How many entities generally share the same value?
Exclusivity: Does an entity generally have only one such value? 2. How? How hard is this? Crimson Hexagon.