Influence

The Buzz About Data There’s a lot of buzz out there about data: big data, "sexy" data science jobs, billionaires with dystopian dreams of self-aware AI... The list goes on. And the buzz is understandable, because there are lots of companies doing cool new work with data and the capabilities of systems are improving dramatically. If you read the business press, you get the sense that if we just have enough data and good enough software, the answers to all our questions will pop out of an algorithm. It reminds me of that old saying: “the data speaks for itself”. But the reality, as any statistician could tell … [Read more...]