What's The Big Data?

IDC, November 2018

“[Data labeling] is an expanding world, hidden beneath the technology. It is hard to take humans out of the loop”—Mary Gray

“The market for data labeling passed $500 million in 2018 and it will reach $1.2 billion by 2023, according to the research firm Cognilytica. This kind of work, the study showed, accounted for 80 percent of the time spent building A.I. technology”—The New York Times

“[Deep learning] is the end of code. It’s just about being able to get your hand on data. This is going to change everything for everyone”—Yosi Taguri

“By 2025, a quarter of all miles driven will be driven by on-demand services”—Amy Wyron, vice president of business solutions, Gett

“Despite the best intentions and loftiest goals, data has a way of escaping its silos”—Megan Molteni, Wired

“When you’re building something that’s based on machine learning or computer-vision technology, what you need is a giant corpus of data”—Jeremy King, head of engineering, Pinterest

“Despite the grand promises of Big Data, uncertainty remains so abundant that specific human lives remain boundlessly unpredictable”—Hannah Fry, Senior Lecturer, University College London

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