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Hypothesis driven data science is over the head of too many people.

• TeMPOraL 10y ago
  That's why it's called "data mining" - you keep digging until you find something. And with lots of data, you can always find something if you look hard enough - which leads to things like http://tylervigen.com/discover http://tylervigen.com/discover.
  • searine 10y ago
    We always called it a fishing expedition. Though, that's what has always appealed to me about truly large data sets, low risk of turing up jack-squat.
  • blahi 10y ago
    Data drudging is what it is called.