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Automatically making sense of data

• carapace 12y ago
  If this really is an automatic "no B.S." translator of big datasets into english summaries (backed by math) then it is huge. It can't compute what the trends mean, but it eliminates the ability to lie about what they actually are (for a given dataset.) We still have to be careful about the conclusions we draw and the actual usefulness of the data we collect and model of course.
• duaneb 12y ago
  Of course, it's not useful as an objective tool until the source can be audited....
  • jfeser 12y ago
    I think it still is. The output is a function fitting the data, so as long as that function is amenable to analysis, it doesn't really matter how it's found. In fact, the paper discusses some modifications they made (reducing the number of parameters) to make the output kernels more intelligible to humans.
• kgarten 12y ago
  somehow spurious correlations came to my mind when reading this http://www.tylervigen.com http://www.tylervigen.com :)