The satellite imagery industry still has no idea what customers want
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The satellite imagery industry still has no idea what customers want
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Re: The satellite imagery industry still has no idea what customers want
#2Is this true for all datasets that financial institutions might want to buy or only satellite imagery?
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#3I found the animated gifs distracting, it took away from whatever you are trying to convey (for me).
Re: The satellite imagery industry still has no idea what customers want
#4Is this true for all datasets that financial institutions might want to buy or only satellite imagery?
I suspect it is at least approximately true of all data sets that are both broadly applicable and difficult to acquire (i.e. requires domain expertise to acquire).
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#5>In my opinion, every supervised machine learning model is hopelessly biased by the intent of its creator(s). Namely, it inherits the bias of its training dataset (both geographic and semantic).
Profound. And True. Sometimes I wonder whether we can truly call them learning models at all.
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#6This seems like the kind of insight that is better monetized than preached - the value will not be perceived until there is a business success that derived from it.
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#7> Allow me to put it more succinctly: selling derived data as a subscription product does. not. work. I don’t care what it is. The juice is never worth the squeeze.¹ Count cars. Count airplanes. Count ships. Segment land cover. Track oil inventories. Estimate biofuels. Measure water levels. Etc. Etc. Etc.
I see that he outlined a few exceptions at the footnote… I'll also add Plaid. I think this guy is making some huge generalizations that don't hold up beyond his industry.
But that said, I recently downgraded two potential startups based on data feeds to personal projects because I realized that nobody really pays for data, and if there is any value then the providers will figure that out inevitably…
Another recent example: I've been using Deliveries for Mac and iOS for over fifteen years, a very simple, perfectly-designed, laser focused app. Both Amazon (not surprising) and Fed Ex (quite surprising) have decided that freely providing delivery dates to consumers is too valuable to leave to third parties, so the beloved app is shuttering sometime this year. https://junecloud.com/journal/iphone/the-future-of-deliverie...
Re: The satellite imagery industry still has no idea what customers want
#8I found the animated gifs distracting, it took away from whatever you are trying to convey (for me).
Re: The satellite imagery industry still has no idea what customers want
#9I found the animated gifs distracting, it took away from whatever you are trying to convey (for me).
Yeah, I have decided I'm just too old for this style. Something wants to be serious, but then it tries to be cute by adding all of the GIFs that do nothing to enhance. I'm all for adding media in whatever format that adds to the understanding of the material. These kinds of garnishes are no better than the animated backgrounds of MySpace and Web1.0 days. Now, get off my lawn!!!
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#10This post seems to begin _in media res_. I feel like I'm missing a lot of context here. What exactly are we complaining about? Did some event happen?