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Data Science, Past & Future

Domino Data Lab

You know, case in point, if you were to talk about predictive analytics 20 years ago, the main people in the field would have laughed you out of the room. Predictive analytics, yeah, not so much.” One is data quality, cleaning up data, the lack of labelled data. You know what?

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Fear has Replaced Apathy as the Number One Enemy of Data

Jim Harris

Background: “Apathy is the enemy of data quality”. I began work on data quality in the late 1980s at the great Bell Laboratories. This led me to conclude, by about 2000, that apathy was the number one enemy of data quality. I especially wanted to identify industries that were ripe for data quality.