Big Data Hype (and Reality) - Gregory Piatetsky-Shapiro. The potential of “big data” has been receiving tremendous attention lately, and not just on HBR’s site. With interest in the topic growing exponentially, it has been the focus of countless articles and perhaps too many meetings and conferences. But to the extent that big data will have big impact, it might not be in the classic territory addressed by analytics. Most applications of data mining and analysis have been, at their hearts, attempts to get better at prediction. Decision-makers want to understand the patterns in the past and the present in order to anticipate what is most likely to happen in the future. Film ratings. In just two weeks, several teams had beaten the Netflix algorithm, although by very small amounts, but after that, progress was surprisingly slow. Netflix Price Competition Progress It took about three years before the BellKor’s Pragmatic Chaos team managed to win the prize with a score of 0.8567 RMSE.
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