Where do you find these ML wizard conusltants? I've been looking to hire someone part time for a project to help build a model but most good people have no time and I don't trust that anyone on elance or similar is any good.
To quote from a great recent article: (I can't find the link, sorry)
It's one thing to create an excellent fraud detection model in R, and quite another to build:
- Fault-tolerant ingest of live data at scale that could represent fraudulent actions
- Real-time computation of features based on the data stream
- Serialization, versioning and management of a fraud detection model
- Real-time prediction of fraud based on computed features at scale
- Learning over all historical data
- Incremental update of the production model in near-real-time
- Monitoring, testing, productionization of all of the above