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2 responses to “Data Is More Important Than Algorithms”

  1. Troy McConaghy

    Without a way to use it or make sense of it, data is useless, regardless of how much you have. The goal is always to build a model.

    “The sciences do not try to explain, they hardly even try to interpret, they mainly make models. By a model is meant a mathematical construct which, with the addition of certain verbal interpretations, describes observed phenomena [i.e. data]. The justification of such a mathematical construct is solely and precisely that it is expected to work—that is, correctly to describe phenomena from a reasonably wide area.” – John von Neumann

    You’re right that data is critical, but how do *you* use it to build a model?

  2. Frank

    This is a breathtakingly stupid article. Larger data sets are useless without faster algorithms to exploit them and those faster algorithms are simple to implement if you hire the right people.