With new algorithms, data scientists could accomplish in days what once took months
Friday, October 21, 2016 - 06:01
in Mathematics & Economics
Last year, MIT researchers presented a system that automated a crucial step in big-data analysis: the selection of a "feature set," or aspects of the data that are useful for making predictions. The researchers entered the system in several data science contests, where it outperformed most of the human competitors and took only hours instead of months to perform its analyses.