Causal inferences — what Big Data cannot give us

Created
Fri, 20/01/2023 - 23:25
Updated
Fri, 20/01/2023 - 23:25
. The central problem with the present ‘Machine Learning’ and ‘Big Data’ hype is that so many — falsely — think that they can get away with analyzing real-world phenomena without any (commitment to) theory. But — data never speaks for itself.  Data by themselves are useless. Without a prior statistical set-up, there actually are […]