Sean Gourley

9 statements across 3 episodes · 3 bullish · 0 bearish · 1 people on the record · first statement Dec 5, 2013 by Sean Gourley · said 2 times in 1 episodes since 2013 · across every show →

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Dec 5, 2013
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Gourley: Quid hires string theorists to perform dimensionality reduction
“For us, one of the big problems is dimensionality reduction, and you want to go from a big, complex world to something that's sort of bite-sized and accessible for humans, and so we employ a lot of physicists, and particularly string theorists, because they sp…”
Sean Gourley Dec 5, 2013 ▶ 14:39 "The Business of Data" Panel // October 2011
Dec 5, 2013
Insight
Gourley: Customers pay for decision insights, not raw data
“The truth is, if you can do that well, and you can give people a better insight to billion dollar decisions, they'll pay a lot of money for it.”
Sean Gourley Dec 5, 2013 ▶ 5:26 "The Business of Data" Panel // October 2011
Mar 20, 2014
Disclosure
Quid works with PR and government clients to shape narratives
“So we work a lot of PR and marketing Drivequid to kind of shape the stories, and they try and not so much predict what the message is gonna be, but be actually the ones that are making it. And that of course has the government clients doing that stuff as well.”
Sean Gourley Mar 20, 2014 ▶ 21:01 Sean Gourley, Quid // Data Driven #25 // March 2014 (Hosted by FirstMark Capital)
Mar 20, 2014
Assertion Partly supported
Human reaction speed tops out at 650 milliseconds for expert chess players
“For an amateur chess player it's about 900 milliseconds for the brain to register whether or not the king is in danger. For an expert chess player, it does increase. It does, you know, get faster, but it tops out at 650 milliseconds.65 of a second.”
Sean Gourley Mar 20, 2014 ▶ 1:17 Sean Gourley, Quid // Data Driven #25 // March 2014 (Hosted by FirstMark Capital)
Mar 20, 2014 bullish
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Gourley predicted consumers would eventually pay subscriptions for algorithmic control
“I think we're going to see subscriptions. I think we're going to see people coming out and saying, you know what, I want a little more control of this algorithm, the information that it gives me, the friends that it chooses.”
Sean Gourley Mar 20, 2014 ▶ 14:02 Sean Gourley, Quid // Data Driven #25 // March 2014 (Hosted by FirstMark Capital)
Mar 19, 2019 positive
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Gourley: Primer headline generator achieves 84% okay-or-better rating versus 87% for humans
“So on humans, we do about 87% are okay or better. At Primer we do about 84% are okay or better.”
Sean Gourley Mar 19, 2019 ▶ 6:55 Building Machines That Can Read and Write // Sean Gourley, Primer (FirstMark's Data Driven NYC)
Mar 19, 2019
Insight
Gourley: Graph joins on Elasticsearch slow text analysis to unusable levels
“If you try and do that on top of, like, an elastic search, you know, your joins that are going to emerge on top of the derived information are going to just slow that thing down to being unusable.”
Sean Gourley Mar 19, 2019 ▶ 16:35 Building Machines That Can Read and Write // Sean Gourley, Primer (FirstMark's Data Driven NYC)
Mar 19, 2019
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Gourley: Primer cut bank analyst report summary time, saving $6M
“We're able to reduce that down to about 25% of the time. And that nets out at about a six million dollar saving for that bank.”
Sean Gourley Mar 19, 2019 ▶ 14:29 Building Machines That Can Read and Write // Sean Gourley, Primer (FirstMark's Data Driven NYC)
Mar 19, 2019 positive
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Gourley: Primer headlines beat human writers 29% of the time in side-by-side tests
“If we do this in a side-by-side comparison we can see around 20, 29 percent of the time primer is better and we can see around 44% of the time on the high-volume model that humans are better.”
Sean Gourley Mar 19, 2019 ▶ 7:05 Building Machines That Can Read and Write // Sean Gourley, Primer (FirstMark's Data Driven NYC)
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