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Conclusions

Alessio
Farcomeni

Conclusions
Big Data for Economic Applications

Alessio Farcomeni
University of Rome “Tor Vergata”

alessio.farcomeni@uniroma2.it
Myths

Conclusions

Alessio
Farcomeni

1 Machine learning approaches are better at prediction than


statistical learning ones
2 Machine learning approaches are black boxes that can not
be explained or interpreted
3 Machine learning approaches work better than human
prediction
Facts

Conclusions

Alessio
Farcomeni

The real revolution is the availability of large data sets and


computational power
Every objective function is a bad objective function

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