[dragandj]

> The only way to quickly do it was to somehow implement a machine learning algo and that would give us the result that we wanted.

Since no one of you had any experience with ML, how did you know that a ML algo (which one?), implemented "somehow" would give you the results you wanted? (Not a cynical comment; I am really interested in hearing about this).

[jimcsharp]

Not OP, but went through a similar situation and the feature was 'alert us about unintuitive correlations in our data so we can invent new KPIs'