If you have limited resources, go after data first and then algorithms. He could have used "GIGO" [0] to make it clearer. Anecdote: there are a few movies that

If you have limited resources, go after data first and then algorithms. He could have used "GIGO" [0] to make it clearer. Anecdote: there are a few movies that completely muddy the statistics, e.g. Napoleon Dynamite [1]. More background [2]. [0] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Garbage_in,_garbage_out http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Garbage_in,_garbage_out [1] http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0374900/ http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0374900/ [2] http://whimsley.typepad.com/whimsley/2009/10/netflix-prize-was-the-napoleon-dynamite-problem-solved.html http://whimsley.typepad.com/whimsley/2009/10/netflix-prize-w...