I don't know why randcraw is being downvoted here: his/her points are vital clarifications. Humans have been gathering and analyzing data for thousands of yea

I don't know why randcraw is being downvoted here: his/her points are vital clarifications. Humans have been gathering and analyzing data for thousands of years. We have _not_ waited for Google's latest ML or neural nets to do analyses. Otherwise I'd be carving this post onto a stone for future generations to peruse. The valuable and understandable AI, the step that will make a difference, isn't in "big data" - it's in figuring out how to do what those humans have been doing all those thousands of years.