Hands on Big Data by Peter Norvig
Last Updated on August 16, 2020
When I’m asked about resources for big data, I typically recommend people watch Peter Norvig’s Big Data tech talk to Facebook Engineering from 2009.
It’s fantastic because he’s a great communicator and clearly and presents the deceptively simple thesis of big data in this video.
In this blog post I summarize this video for you into cliff notes you can review.
Essentially, all models are wrong, but some are useful.
Quote by George Box.
More Data vs Better Algorithms
Screenshot from Peter Norvig on big data
Norvig starts out by summarizing that theories (models) are created by smart people that have insight. The process is slow and not reproducible and the models have flaws in them. If the models are going to be wrong anyway, can we come up with a faster and simpler process to create them.
Big Data Case Studies
Three case studies are presented that demonstrate that simple models can be created from large corpus of data. The three case
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