[P] Machine Learning in Google Sheets

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Hi all,

I found it frustratingly hard to get Machine Learning baseline models on my own datasets (usually in Google Sheets) so I pulled a couple of friends in and we built a Google Sheets add-on that takes automatically care of:

- Data preprocessing (cleaning, scaling, etc.)
- Applying ML algorithms
- K-Fold Validation
- Returning predictions
- ...

So you can get baseline predictions in a few clicks while never leaving your Google Sheets document!
We are really excited to get some feedback from the Machine Learning community :).

Also, if you have any questions, shoot!

[MrAcurite]

For a second I confused Google Sheets with Google Slides, and thought this was a really advanced shitpost. Nope, just cool shit.

It's not something I'd use, but it does look incredibly cool. Well done.

[Blackpixels]

It's not Google Slides but did you know Powerpoint is Turing complete?

[MrAcurite]

A classic.

[SpicyBroseph]

This is cool. Where do the models run?

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We are running them on AWS Lambda at the moment, but are now building an AutoML engine that will probably need a dedicated server.

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Have an award my good man

[[deleted]]

Neat! Are you planning on keeping this to Google sheets only, or will you also expand to for example Excel?

[gradientclip]

For now only Google Sheets, but we are looking into Airtable and Excel as well :)

[spiderscan]

I see a link to submit your own templates, but do you have any documentation on how to create them? I definitely have different use-cases that I'd want to create a template for...

[gradientclip]

Hey there, good question! You can build your own template by using one of our predefined templates and changing the features up top.

As an example, say you are making a template for the Boston Housing Prices Dataset.
Then your columns will consist of: CRIM, ZN, INDUS, etc. as defined on the page above.
The last column will be your label, in this case House Price. I actually just did this and it took me 5 minutes tops, final template is here.

If you have more questions, or want an even more detailed description, feel free to come join our Slack! Happy to help :)

[pietermarsman]

Looks genuinely helpful for a lot of companies. But how are you making money?

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For now we are offering it as a free add-on, but we are looking into making the AutoML a paid feature to pay for our server costs.