Volinsky: Earth Mover's Distance Is a Brilliant Metric for Data Science
Chris Volinsky · Chris Volinsky, AT&T // Data Driven #25 // March 2014 (Hosted by FirstMark Capital) · Mar 20, 2014 · at 17:09
Chris Volinsky, AVP at AT&T Labs-Research, speaks at Data Driven NYC about finding effective mathematical algorithms for measuring distance between cell tower handoff sequences.
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“If you've, if you're working in a, if you're doing data science and you need a good distance metric, this, look at the earth mover distance. I had never heard of it before, and it's a brilliant, brilliant piece of science that's, of course, decades old.”
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