While I was reading this BCG's report, 'Just-in-Time Pricing' (Antorcha and Schürman, May 2010), I thought about how'd you apply the different pricing models to YOUR life (in capitals, since I don't want to talk about your professional services, but your personal/private life). For starters, you'll need to understand one's …
Many times I have to step in colleagues, customers, and alumni conversations to explain why statistical sampling works. First think I use to ask is ‘do you really think Government ask every country inhabitant to find out if s/he is employed, or looking for a job?’; that’s it my …
Once, during a seminar in Brazil I was questioned about ethics just because I said I didn’t want to (of course, anyone like myself would consider that a provocation for reaction…). Then, I said, I’m not a philosopher, but I won’t talk about it just because ethics and values are …
While I’m trying to juggle around with the data set offered by Netflix for the quest of improving their Cinematch algorithm I’m in my own quest for getting the theory behind the real model, the structure that resides behind those 2GB of user and movie ids, dates and so on. …
Yesterday I was talking to my friend and colleague Pau Rausell-Köster, from the Research Unit in Cultural Economics (Universitat de València), about the Netflix Prize. We were discussing about the foundations of taste and preferences, and how it was quite difficult to, by means of a devil reductionism, create a …