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The Paradox Of Big Data, Gary N. Smith Jan 2019

The Paradox Of Big Data, Gary N. Smith

Pomona Economics

Data-mining is often used to discover patterns in Big Data. It is tempting believe that because an unearthed pattern is unusual it must be meaningful, but patterns are inevitable in Big Data and usually meaningless. The paradox of Big Data is that data mining is most seductive when there are a large number of variables, but a large number of variables exacerbates the perils of data mining.


Rhode Island Current Conditions Index — September 2011, Leonard Lardaro Sep 2011

Rhode Island Current Conditions Index — September 2011, Leonard Lardaro

The Rhode Island Current Conditions Index

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