Comments on: Big data beats better algorithms

By: Daron Babin

Daron Babin — Wed, 22 Apr 2009 06:01:30 +0000

Big data beats better algorithms- by Fisheye Perspective: Rather than giving credits to PageRank and other algor.. http://bit.ly/N07kM

By: Christoph Gold

Christoph Gold — Wed, 22 Apr 2009 05:38:09 +0000

Big data beats better algorithms- by Fisheye Perspective http://bit.ly/dzqH2

By: Abhishek Tiwari

Abhishek Tiwari — Wed, 22 Apr 2009 05:35:24 +0000

Big data beats better algorithms: Anand Rajaraman wrote a series of posts about how more data usually beats bett.. http://tinyurl.com/cbym9c

By: Deepak

Deepak — Wed, 22 Apr 2009 00:47:00 +0000

Madhu don’t disagree at all. But in the end science is not statistics. You have to have a hypothesis that you can represent mathematically. Not possible for everything yet, but with more data you get the opportunity to test out hypotheses and build more representative models. I agree with Abhishek about independent blocks, since that gives you better coverage to build appropriate representations to test and then use to answer questions

By: Madhu Pandey

Madhu Pandey — Wed, 22 Apr 2009 00:43:00 +0000

good data models are primary requirement but it should not be over-engineered, @ Deepak there is nothing wrong to have simplistic views if they provide cleaner and more elegant explanations

By: Abhishek Tiwari

Abhishek Tiwari — Tue, 21 Apr 2009 22:59:00 +0000

I guess same data and independent data are two different things, Big data with independent blocks does make sense

By: Deepak

Deepak — Tue, 21 Apr 2009 22:43:00 +0000

IMO that’s too simplistic a view. More data definitely helps and is critical, but good theoretical representations are essential. Let’s put it this way. Given the same data, the better algo will prevail