Thursday, September 13, 2012

Turning Data Science Into a Spectator 'Sport'

They could make it go faster than televised bass fishing.

Seriously, no one not wearing white polyester pants up to below their chest and golf shoes, or someone wearing hip waders and holding a fly reel, would have the patience to watch this.

Even if you could trick someone into watching it, you're never going to get beyond the "accumulate points" stage, unless there's an end goal, and you can see progress toward that goal well enough that the representation would allow you to predict a winner or a close race.

If it goes anywhere, it'll be because Jeff Bezos or Larry Ellison favors a team and drops a bunch of machines into that teams cluster. Actually, if it's Larry Ellison, expect him to drop just enough computers into the underdog to be able to claim a tax write off and fix the Vegas odds to the point he can switch the support at the last minute and cash in.

Source: http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdotScience/~3/u7xYlIMlOaA/turning-data-science-into-a-spectator-sport

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