How to generate data for machine learning – Bits&Chips

Jan Bosch is a research center director, professor, consultant and angel investor in start-ups. You can contact him at jan@janbosch.com. In recent columns, I've been sharing my view on the quality of the data that many companies have in their data warehouses, lakes or swamps. In my experience, most of the data that companies have stored so carefully is useless and will never generate any value for the company. The data that actually is potentially useful tends to require vast amounts of preprocessing before it can be used for machine learning, for example.