33 unusual problems that can be solved with data science

Automated translation, including translating one programming language into another one (for instance, SQL to Python - the converse is not possible) Spell checks, especially for people writing in multiple languages - lot's of progress to be made here, including automatically recognizing the language when you type, and stop trying to correct the same word every single time (some browsers have tried to change Ning to Nong hundreds of times, and I have no idea why after 50 failures they continue to try - I call this machine unlearning) Detection of earth-like planets - focus on planetary systems with many planets to increase odds of finding inhabitable planets, rather than stars and planets matching our Sun and Earth Distinguishing between noise and signal on millions of NASA pictures or videos, to identify patterns Customized, patient-specific medications and diets Predicting oil demand, oil reserves, oil price, impact of coal usage Predicting chances that a container in a port contains ...