I thought the same thing (and wrote a bit about it: http://www.win-vector.com/blog/2014/02/the-gap-between-data-mining-and-predictive-models/ http://www.win-vec

I thought the same thing (and wrote a bit about it: http://www.win-vector.com/blog/2014/02/the-gap-between-data-mining-and-predictive-models/ http://www.win-vector.com/blog/2014/02/the-gap-between-data-... ).