Automatically making sense of data

http://googleresearch.blogspot.com/2014/12/automatically-making-sense-of-data.html

by ot • 12 years ago

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carapace• 12 years 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• 12 years ago

Of course, it's not useful as an objective tool until the source can be audited....

jfeser• 12 years 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• 12 years ago

somehow spurious correlations came to my mind when reading this http://www.tylervigen.com :)

Automatically making sense of data

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