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Hubris and the Data Scientist

Hubris and the Data Scientist

By Paul Miller on March 6, 2012

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 […]

Posted in Enterprise, Featured Posts, Trends & Concepts | Tagged big data, data science, data scientist, domain expertise, domain knowledge, expert, hubris, icarus, kaggle, Machine learning, ReadWriteWeb, Scientist, strata conf | 2 Responses

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