Daniel McFadden on the Challenges of Big Data

Published on February 3, 2021

Daniel McFadden, co-recipient of the 2000 Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel, comments on the opportunities and challenges of (privately-funded) Big Data research: 

"It's very important to understand, when working with big data,  that it needs to be played as a complement against data which is more complete."

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