{"id":2786,"date":"2013-12-11T18:02:30","date_gmt":"2013-12-11T18:02:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.predictiveanalyticsworld.com\/machinelearningtimes\/?p=2786"},"modified":"2013-12-11T18:02:30","modified_gmt":"2013-12-11T18:02:30","slug":"the-hungry-statistician-or-why-we-never-can-get-enough-data","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.predictiveanalyticsworld.com\/machinelearningtimes\/the-hungry-statistician-or-why-we-never-can-get-enough-data\/2786\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;The hungry statistician&#8221; \u2013 or why we never can get enough data"},"content":{"rendered":"As the \u201cYear of Statistics\u201d comes to a close,\u00a0I write this blog in support of the many statisticians who carefully fulfil their analysis tasks day by day, and to defend what may appear to be\u00a0demanding behavior when it comes to data requirements. How do statisticians get this reputation? Are we really that complicated, with\u00a0data\u00a0requirements that are hard to fulfil? Or are we just pushed by the business question itself and the subsequent demands of the appropriate\u00a0analytical methods? Let&#8217;s accept the presumption of innocence and postulate that none of us ask IT departments to\u00a0excavate data from historical time periods <a href=\"https:\/\/www.predictiveanalyticsworld.com\/machinelearningtimes\/the-hungry-statistician-or-why-we-never-can-get-enough-data\/2786\/\" class=\"more-link\">(more&hellip;)<\/a>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As the \u201cYear of Statistics\u201d comes to a close,\u00a0I write this blog in support of the many statisticians who carefully fulfil their analysis tasks day by day, and to defend what may appear to be\u00a0demanding behavior when it comes to data requirements. How do statisticians get this reputation? Are we really that complicated, with\u00a0data\u00a0requirements that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[167,63,254,8],"class_list":["post-2786","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-industry-news","tag-advanced-analytics","tag-data-mining","tag-data-quality","tag-predictive-analytics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.predictiveanalyticsworld.com\/machinelearningtimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2786","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.predictiveanalyticsworld.com\/machinelearningtimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.predictiveanalyticsworld.com\/machinelearningtimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.predictiveanalyticsworld.com\/machinelearningtimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.predictiveanalyticsworld.com\/machinelearningtimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2786"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.predictiveanalyticsworld.com\/machinelearningtimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2786\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2788,"href":"https:\/\/www.predictiveanalyticsworld.com\/machinelearningtimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2786\/revisions\/2788"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.predictiveanalyticsworld.com\/machinelearningtimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2786"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.predictiveanalyticsworld.com\/machinelearningtimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2786"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.predictiveanalyticsworld.com\/machinelearningtimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2786"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}