The Language of Pattern Recognition
May 13, 2004 | Source: Technology Review
Scientists and businesspeople may inhabit different cultures, but they’re looking for the same thing: patterns.
The trick is in reading the data points better or faster — or gathering more data — than anyone else. The winner is the one who needs the fewest clues to make out the big picture. They can extract more insight from a set of facts or generate data that reveal more about how the world works.
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