The Phantom Pattern Problem: The Mirage of Big Data by Gary Smith, Jay Cordes
English | November 24th, 2020 | ISBN: 0198864167 | 240 pages | EPUB | 1.17 MB
Pattern-recognition prowess served our ancestors well, but today we are confronted by a deluge of data that is far more abstract, complicated, and difficult to interpret. The number of possible patterns that can be identified relative to the number that are genuinely useful has grown exponentially - which means that the chances that a discovered pattern is useful is rapidly approaching zero.