The "Big Data Backlash" isn't anything new: Nassim Taleb's conversation about it in his last book, in which he presents a mathematical proof that noise-to-signa

The "Big Data Backlash" isn't anything new: Nassim Taleb's conversation about it in his last book, in which he presents a mathematical proof that noise-to-signal increases exponentially with data, is scathing. "Big data" means anyone can find fake statistical relationships, since the spurious rises to the surface. http://www.wired.com/2013/02/big-data-means-big-errors-people/ http://www.wired.com/2013/02/big-data-means-big-errors-peopl...