The Phantom Pattern Problem
The Mirage of Big Data
Pattern-recognition prowess served our ancestors well, but today we are confronted by a deluge of data that is far more abstract, complicated, and difficult to interpret. The number of possible patterns that can be identified relative to the number that are genuinely useful has grown exponentially - which means that the chances that a discovered pattern is useful is rapidly approaching zero.Patterns in data are often used as evidence, but how can you tell if that evidence is worth believing? We are hard-wired to notice patterns and to think that the patterns we notice are meaningful. Streaks, clusters, and correlations are the norm, not the e…
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Weitere Autoren: Cordes, Jay
- ISBN: 978-0-19-260968-7
- EAN: 9780192609687
- Produktnummer: 34852406
- Verlag: Oxford University Press
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2020
- Seitenangabe: 256 S.
- Plattform: PDF
- Masse: 1'933 KB
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Gary Smith is the Fletcher Jones Professor of Economics at Pomona College. Gary Smith is the Fletcher Jones Professor of Economics at Pomona College. He received his Ph.D. in Economics from Yale University and was an Assistant Professor there for seven years. He has won two teaching awards and written more than eighty academic papers and thirteen books.Jay Cordes is a data scientist who enjoys tackling challenging problems, including how to guide future data scientists away from the common pitfalls he saw in the corporate world. He earned a Math degree from Pomona College and more recently graduated from UC Berkeley's Master of Information and Data Science (MIDS) program.
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