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Who's afraid of the big black box?: Statisticians' vital role in big data and predictive modelling
Author(s) -
Kuhn Max,
Johnson Kjell
Publication year - 2014
Publication title -
significance
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.123
H-Index - 21
eISSN - 1740-9713
pISSN - 1740-9705
DOI - 10.1111/j.1740-9713.2014.00753.x
Subject(s) - big data , black box , data science , computer science , data mining , artificial intelligence
What goes on inside the black‐box algorithms that turn big data into something useful? The answer, say Max Kuhn and Kjell Johnson , is statistical – so statisticians should come to the big data party.