Statistical Validity in Big Data | Matt Mullenweg

Statistical Validity in Big Data | Matt Mullenweg

…there are vastly more possible comparisons than there are data points to compare. Without careful analysis, the ratio of genuine patterns to spurious patterns – of signal to noise – quickly tends to zero.

Tim Harford in the Financial Times has a great article called Big data: are we making a big mistake?.

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