>"...The goal of D3M is to help overcome the data-science expertise gap by enabling non-experts to construct complex empirical models through automation of larg

>"...The goal of D3M is to help overcome the data-science expertise gap by enabling non-experts to construct complex empirical models through automation of large parts of the model-creation process..." This makes me think of the premise behind Excel, and Access: provide a way for (mostly) non-programmers a nice wizard like tool to analyze data. Of course, the (painful) shortcomings of such tools are known all too well. Hope this Darpa project fares better. On the plus side it democratizes access to a technology, the good and the bad.