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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

Kaggle CEO Anthony Goldbloom reckons competitions ‘an amazing way to do data science’

Kaggle CEO Anthony Goldbloom reckons competitions ‘an amazing way to do data science’

By Paul Miller on February 1, 2011

Image via CrunchBase I had coffee this morning with Anthony Goldbloom, Australian CEO of Kaggle. The company describes itself as “a platform for data prediction competitions,” and seeks to solve big problems by hosting competitions that match data owners with a problem to (professional and amateur) data scientists with the time, creativity and skills to […]

Posted in Application Software | Tagged anthony goldbloom, Heritage Health Prize, hpnhealthprize, kaggle, open data, strataconf

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