Tim Gilbert (@AlgorithmistTim) header
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I enjoy solving hard problems by using/inventing algorithms, applying machine learning, and programming. The field of product data always has more new problems.

Virginia, USA
Joined September 2017
Besides home-goods and print-on-demand, how many industries suffer from 80 char limits on product titles? Would it help if we could tell you what text you can safely remove and which shortening will help with SEO? #ecommerce
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The fundamental goal of #AI is to create something smarter than ourselves (at least in one particular subject). #productdata
Currently building a prototype to find matching product titles between 2 different lists of skus using 5 fuzzy #algorithms. #productdata
One of the hardest things in #AI matching is teaching the computer to recognize "close but no cigar". #bigdata
The 2 most common mistakes in modern software development: using too much AI, and not using it at all. #AI #BigData
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Are you going to have good performance or good excuses? You can only pick one. #tips
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Here's my take on using algorithms/AI to categorize products into GPC and other taxonomies #ecommerce #bigdata #ai findwatt.com/blog/automatic-…
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Artificial stupidity is a lot more prevalent than Artificial Intelligence
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In todays #adwords environment, you can't succeed without optimizing, and can't optimize without measuring. #ppctips findwatt.com/blog/case-study…
Data science is only useful to your bottom-line when it leads to Data engineering. #adwords #ecommerce
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Aligning #searchterms to product data allows significant impression/click/CTR/RoAS improvements. #GoogleShopping findwatt.com/blog/how-to-mat…
Which is better: an analysis that shows hard problems in your data for you to fix, or one that fixes easy problems for you? #ecommerce
Is your product feed ready for Christmas or will the grinch steal your conversions? findwatt.com/product-title-e… #GoogleShopping #Adwords
Solving #ecommerce product data problems is like an infinite fractal. No matter how deep you go, there's always more.
Do you know why product type is key to #ecommerce #searchterms optimization? Hint: it's about your customers. findwatt.com/blog/what-produ…
I spent almost a year developing these twenty product-title tests, & have more for the next version (plus some autofixing). #GoogleShopping teapawt.net/FindWAtt/status/916041…
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Don't waste effort optimizing the wrong #searchterms in #Adwords. Focus time where it does the most good. #ppctips findwatt.com/blog/metric-to-…
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Luck is what you can do once. Success is what you can do over and over again. #ecommercetips
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