From the course: Learning Data Science: Understanding the Basics
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From the course: Learning Data Science: Understanding the Basics
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- One of the key challenges in data science is what I call, the cluster of dreams. It's based on the movie starring Kevin Costner, called the Field of Dreams. It was about a man who spent all of his savings building a baseball diamond in a cornfield. He was visited by the ghosts of old players. They told him to finish the baseball diamond. They said, if you build it, they will come. Many organizations get caught in the same trap. They focus their energy on building hardware and collecting massive amounts of data. They make sizable investments in software to run on large data clusters. Their dream is that they have enough hardware and software then they'll gain valuable insights. If they build it, it will come. That makes a lot of sense if you think about it. Many organizations have a lot of experience delivering successful hardware projects. It's something they know how to do. Most large organizations are good at it and they've done it for decades. Data science is new. In many…
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