Tag: Big Data
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Does ‘Big Data’ Mean the Demise of the Expert — And Intuition?
Wired: Does ‘Big Data’ Mean the Demise of the Expert — And Intuition? … The subject-area expert, the substantive specialist, will lose some of his or her luster compared with the statistician and data analyst, who are unfettered by the old ways of doing things and let the data speak. This new cadre will rely…
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What Data Can’t Do – David Brooks
New York Times: What Data Can't Do – David Brooks … Data struggles with the social. Your brain is pretty bad at math (quick, what’s the square root of 437), but it’s excellent at social cognition. People are really good at mirroring each other’s emotional states, at detecting uncooperative behavior and at assigning value to…