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Themes and Conferences per Pacoid, Episode 8

Domino Data Lab

We find ways to improve machine learning so that it requires orders of magnitude more data, e.g., deep learning with neural networks. My read of that narrative arc is that some truly weird tensions showed up circa 2001: Arguably, it’s the heyday of DW+BI. In short, the virtuous cycle is growing. It’s a mess.

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Data Science at The New York Times

Domino Data Lab

The data science group, in particular, includes people from a “wide variety of intellectual trainings” including cognitive science, physics, finance, applied math, and more. He went into finance for a year, then he was super bored. In 2001, Bill Cleveland writes this article saying, “You are doing it wrong.”