{"id":4988,"date":"2015-02-19T21:41:16","date_gmt":"2015-02-19T21:41:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.predictiveanalyticsworld.com\/machinelearningtimes\/?p=4988"},"modified":"2015-02-19T21:41:27","modified_gmt":"2015-02-19T21:41:27","slug":"which-came-first-the-chicken-or-the-egg-data-science-can-help","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.predictiveanalyticsworld.com\/machinelearningtimes\/which-came-first-the-chicken-or-the-egg-data-science-can-help\/4988\/","title":{"rendered":"Which Came First? The Chicken or the Egg&#8230; Data Science Can Help"},"content":{"rendered":"Imagine that you are a professional observer with a magic telescope. Like ordinary telescopes, it lets you see things that are far away, but this one is attached to a magic screen, so I can use it to tell my story. On your magic screen, you see a farm in a distant land. Each morning you observe the farmer feeding his chickens a measure of food, and each evening he returns to harvest about a dozen eggs from the coop. The behavior is repeated daily for quite some time. One day you observe that the farmer has doubled <a href=\"https:\/\/www.predictiveanalyticsworld.com\/machinelearningtimes\/which-came-first-the-chicken-or-the-egg-data-science-can-help\/4988\/\" class=\"more-link\">(more&hellip;)<\/a>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Imagine that you are a professional observer with a magic telescope. Like ordinary telescopes, it lets you see things that are far away, but this one is attached to a magic screen, so I can use it to tell my story. On your magic screen, you see a farm in a distant land. Each morning [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[11,48],"tags":[166],"class_list":["post-4988","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-industry-news","category-left-hand","tag-data-science"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.predictiveanalyticsworld.com\/machinelearningtimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4988","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=4988"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.predictiveanalyticsworld.com\/machinelearningtimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4988\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4989,"href":"https:\/\/www.predictiveanalyticsworld.com\/machinelearningtimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4988\/revisions\/4989"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.predictiveanalyticsworld.com\/machinelearningtimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4988"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.predictiveanalyticsworld.com\/machinelearningtimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4988"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.predictiveanalyticsworld.com\/machinelearningtimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4988"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}