Shared: Understanding spurious correlation in data-mining – Boing Boing

Understanding spurious correlation in data-mining – Boing Boing:

Last May, Dave at Euri.ca took at crack at expanding Gabriel Rossman’s excellent post on spurious correlation in data. It’s an important read for anyone wondering whether the core hypothesis of the Big Data movement is that every sufficiently large pile of horseshit must have a pony in it somewhere.

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