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The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Data

paper-0055 · paper · 2009

Alon Halevy, Peter Norvig, Fernando Pereira

Data beats cleverness; the empirical creed of the scaling era, stated early.

Abstract

Problems that involve interacting with humans, such as natural language understanding, have not proven to be solvable by concise, neat formulas like F = ma. Instead, the best approach appears to be to embrace the complexity of the domain and address it by harnessing the power of data: if other humans engage in the tasks and generate large amounts of unlabeled, noisy data, new algorithms can be used to build high-quality models from the data. [OpenAlex]

Academic, score -0.1710

MetricStatusValueNorm.WeightContributionSourceConfidenceLicenseProvenance
citation_countpresent1792.00.0080620.50.004031OpenAlexhighOpenAlex, CC0 metadatalink
library_holdingsmissingrecorded as missing, penalized by rule, never imputed−0.1recorded as missing; penalized by rule, never imputed
readership_persistencepresent15.01.00.050.05OpenAlexmediumOpenAlex, CC0 metadatalink
syllabus_adoptionsmissingrecorded as missing, penalized by rule, never imputed−0.125recorded as missing; penalized by rule, never imputed

Broad Influence, score 0.2016

MetricStatusValueNorm.WeightContributionSourceConfidenceLicenseProvenance
citation_countpresent1792.00.0080620.20.001612OpenAlexhighOpenAlex, CC0 metadatalink
library_holdingsmissingrecorded as missing, penalized by rule, never imputed−0.125recorded as missing; penalized by rule, never imputed
readership_persistencepresent15.01.00.40.4OpenAlexmediumOpenAlex, CC0 metadatalink
syllabus_adoptionsmissingrecorded as missing, penalized by rule, never imputed−0.075recorded as missing; penalized by rule, never imputed

Governance Practitioner, score -0.2230

MetricStatusValueNorm.WeightContributionSourceConfidenceLicenseProvenance
citation_countpresent1792.00.0080620.250.002016OpenAlexhighOpenAlex, CC0 metadatalink
library_holdingsmissingrecorded as missing, penalized by rule, never imputed−0.15recorded as missing; penalized by rule, never imputed
readership_persistencepresent15.01.00.10.1OpenAlexmediumOpenAlex, CC0 metadatalink
syllabus_adoptionsmissingrecorded as missing, penalized by rule, never imputed−0.175recorded as missing; penalized by rule, never imputed

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