
Hubris and the Data Scientist
ReadWriteWeb‘s Joe Brockmeier captures a recurring issue from last week’s O’Reilly Strata conference, asking “Can Big Data replace domain expertise?” According to Brockmeier, the audience (of data scientists) apparently narrowly agreed that their arsenal of tools and algorithms trumped the knowledge and experience of the meteorologists, financiers, and retailers to whose domains data scientists are increasingly...
The Semantic Web Gang – LIVE in San Jose
Image via Wikipedia One of the podcasts I’ve been doing for a while is the monthly Semantic Web Gang. It began whilst I was with Talis, and the company continues to support production and hosting of the show. Unlike most of my podcasts (all listed over there on the right, for those of you reading...
Guest post on ReadWriteWeb
I’m delighted that a modified version of my very first post for this blog was reproduced as a guest post on ReadWriteWeb this evening. Thanks for thinking of me, guys, and I look forward to producing some fresh content for you down the line!