Tag: Probability

• Big Data or Pig Data?

  

  (A fable on huge amounts of data and why we don’t need models)  There was a pig who wanted to be a scientist. He was not interested in models. When asked how he planned on making sense of the world, the pig would say in a deep mysterious voice, “I don’t do models: the world […]

  rrameez

  December 14, 2012

  Modeling, Science, Science Debates

  Big data, Correlations, Frictionless plane, Galileo, Models, Peter Norvig, Pig data, Probability, Statistics