Big Data Has Been Getting A Run In The Last Few Weeks But I Sense A Large Dollop Of Skepticism.

This appeared last week:Benefits from big data at risk from untrustworthy, bungling politiciansBy Ross Gittins18 November 2018 — 2:00pmThe digital revolution holds the potential to use mere “data” to improve the budget and the economy, and hence our businesses and our lives. But you have to wonder whether our politicians are up to the challenge.In a speech last week, the Australian Statistician, boss of the Australian Bureau of Statistics, David Kalisch, said the new statistical frontier is “data integration” – you take two or more separate sets of statistics and put them together in ways that reveal new information. Things you didn’t know about how bits of the world work.This is just exploring the huge, still largely untapped potential of computers to manipulate a lot of figures and produce useful information about what’s going on in this field or that. But it also involves new statistical techniques for combining data in ways that make sense and don’t mislead.(This, BTW, raises a... This is the initial part of the post - read more by clicking on the title of the article. David.
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