Zitat des Tages von Anthony Goldbloom:
I got really excited about the idea of data-driven startup just as I was starting Kaggle.
Big data is mostly about taking numbers and using those numbers to make predictions about the future. The bigger the data set you have, the more accurate the predictions about the future will be.
Without the discipline of having a wife to come home to, you end up just working all the time.
Business analytics or predictive modelling is a $100 billion industry, and $41 billion is spent on outsourced business analytics every year. I think that's about twice the size of the movie industry - it's really big.
Our view is that the very best data miners or statisticians can earn as much as the very best golfers or tennis players.
If competition for Kaggle's top talent becomes fierce enough among banks, insurance companies, hedge funds - we hope the world's best data scientists will earn more than $50 million per year, just like the world's best hedge fund managers.