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Themes and Conferences per Pacoid, Episode 10

Domino Data Lab

ans from Nick Elprin, CEO and co-founder of Domino Data Lab, about the importance of model-driven business: “Being data-driven is like navigating by watching the rearview mirror. If your business is using big data and putting dashboards in front of analysts, you’re missing the point.”.

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Unintentional data

The Unofficial Google Data Science Blog

There is no longer always intentionality behind the act of data collection — data are not collected in response to a hypothesis about the world, but for the same reason George Mallory climbed Everest: because it’s there. For better and for worse, technology has led to a democratization of data within organizations. 3] Hill, A.