Databank and Polls - Limitations and all That
This is what we are lead to believe is the answer, our decision making tool - Big Data As I was reading Philip Ball’s How Life Works, these sentences, I am paraphrasing to some extent, caught my mind, Sometimes this rush to next big data challenge is justified with the implication that’s all that is needed. This is done in the absence of framing the how and why question in scientific terms: hypothesis to test. It is almost as if there is a belief that insights will simply begin to seep out of the data bank once it reaches the critical mass. Mimicking the idea that evolution is not goal-directed and is totally random, patterns can emerge, and we can come up with the ‘right’ relationship and the correct answer, and, that is all there is to human intelligence, pattern recognition. The premise of big data for answers primarily rests on this premise. Artificial Intelligence, the advancement that we see in the computing area, relies on big data to predict behaviour, actions and ...