>Dang, I wish I could find the link to this...an HP data scientist wrote a short essay (something like "Intro to Data Science") and said that the proper collect

>Dang, I wish I could find the link to this...an HP data scientist wrote a short essay (something like "Intro to Data Science") and said that the proper collection and cleaning of data is often seen as dirty grudge work that has to be done (by someone else, hopefully) before the real groundbreaking work can be done. However, the author said, this dirty grudge work is the real work. It's called data munging. Good short article on dataspora about it a while back: http://www.dataspora.com/2009/05/sexy-data-geeks/ http://www.dataspora.com/2009/05/sexy-data-geeks/