{"id":472,"date":"2015-08-28T07:28:43","date_gmt":"2015-08-28T04:28:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kusuaks7\/?p=77"},"modified":"2025-02-27T14:28:48","modified_gmt":"2025-02-27T14:28:48","slug":"kdnuggets-poll-eye-opener-data-science-debate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.experfy.com\/blog\/bigdata-cloud\/kdnuggets-poll-eye-opener-data-science-debate\/","title":{"rendered":"KDNugget\u0092s Poll: an Eye Opener for Data Science Debate"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t
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\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tThe data science debate on machine learning vs domain expertise has gone on for years now, but none of the soothsayers have\u00a0been able to establish the dominance of one school of\u00a0thought over the\u00a0other. As the debate has attempted to polarize the thinkers into two opposing viewpoints, 2012 was the year that turned this heated argument into a more thought-provoking, introspective exercise.\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t
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The controversy started with KDNugget’s Poll on ML Replacing Domain Expertise<\/a><\/b>, held in April 2012, where people had to share their personal views about machine learning replacing domain expertise. 55% of the poll respondents firmly expressed that in a large number of domains, machine learning can never replace domain expertise.
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\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tThis poll highlights a very interesting comment from a specific respondent.\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t
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\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tRoss Bettinger, on ML replacing Human Domain Expertise:<\/b>\n
But I believe that, no matter how thoroughly one or more domain experts are debriefed by knowledge engineers, there will still be unknown unknowns or emerging trends that will not be sensible to a computer program. Until a true AI comes along that can autonomously adapt to new and unanticipated experiences, I vote for the human element and say that ML will not triumph over domain expertise.<\/blockquote>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t
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On the other side of the spectrum, available information shows\u00a0that Machine Learning + Big Data together can outperform domain expertise. At Strata 2012,\u00a0Claudia Perlich’s experiences on data mining competitions<\/a><\/strong>\u00a0will lead you to believe that she won the competitions on movie reviews, breast cancer, and customer behavior without any prior (domain) knowledge.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t

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However, the recent poll\u00a0achieved the triggering of a more rational, more inclusive dialogue<\/i> between the two polarized groups. This dialogue was perhaps the beginning of a collaborative approach between the two groups to finding participatory problem-solving methods between machine learning and domain expertise. One\u00a0rejoinder to KDNugget’s Poll results shows\u00a0how far this debate has advanced:<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t

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\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tIs Machine Learning v Domain Expertise the wrong question?<\/a><\/b>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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