Back to Basics - The Return To Simplicity In Data? (Video) - 8/10/2020

Based on Joe Reis's LinkedIn post from yesterday about data science returning to the basics, Matt Housley and Joe Reis discuss what's going on.

LinkedIn post: https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:activity:6698376737832742912/

• Intro - Matt's new computer is broken.

• The post - What is Joe talking about?

• Big data is now "out of the box". The mystique is gone (it's been gone for a while, actually).

• Deep learning vs simpler ML and statistical methods

• The "ceremony of data science"

• Excel. Data scientists seem to be accepting Excel. Did Hell just freeze over?

• Undifferentiated heavy lifting. Abstraction helps. Use managed services if it's not your core competency.