
Hubris and the Data Scientist
ReadWriteWeb‘s Joe Brockmeier captures a recurring issue from last week’s O’Reilly Strata conference, asking “Can Big Data replace domain expertise?” According to Brockmeier, the audience (of data scientists) apparently narrowly agreed that their arsenal of tools and algorithms trumped the knowledge and experience of the meteorologists, financiers, and retailers to whose domains data scientists are increasingly […]

Cloud Computing and the Dearth of Experts
Recent technological changes and developments always lead to a lack of experts in a particular field. Social Networking and cloud computing are both facing this “lack of experts” with many people claiming expertise where very little really exists. There are excellent experts in both cloud computing and in social media, but given the lack of […]