SURPRISE! ITS ENTROPY, THE THEORY OF INFORMATION
2019-02-01
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Matt Gershoff
(Conductrics, New York - USA)
Have you ever looked at different data sets and thought,’wow this data set is really informative but this other data set, not so much’’? Or though ‘this data is really surprising’. As analyst, wouldn’t it be amazing, almost magical, if rather than just using ‘information’ and ‘surprise’ as qualitative terms, we could actually quantify both how surprised we are, and how much information one data set has vs another?