Resistance is Futile

[Jeff Grossman]

"Big Data to Enable Global Disruption of the Grapevine-powered industries" click

Statisticians are comin' for your grapes! Shoot to kill... on average.

I'm particularly curious about the "qualitative and quantitative evaluation of this year's harvested grapes." We can easily track which vineyards needed the least spraying, which ones got the most hail, density of glassy-winged sharpshooters vs number of buried rams horns. But who is judging quality? What are the assumptions, pre-conditions, intentions, backgrounds, or biases?

Doomed to produce technically-correct and soulless crap.

 

[VLM]

originally posted by Jeff Grossman:
Resistance is Futile"Big Data to Enable Global Disruption of the Grapevine-powered industries" click

Statisticians are comin' for your grapes! Shoot to kill... on average.

I'm particularly curious about the "qualitative and quantitative evaluation of this year's harvested grapes." We can easily track which vineyards needed the least spraying, which ones got the most hail, density of glassy-winged sharpshooters vs number of buried rams horns. But who is judging quality? What are the assumptions, pre-conditions, intentions, backgrounds, or biases?

Doomed to produce technically-correct and soulless crap.

Easy there. Data mining is generally done by people that aren't statisticians and don't care about the things we tend to care about.

 

[Jeff Grossman]

Heh.