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The former, if all things remain the same in terms of computing power and availability of data. I think betting against improvement in either of those areas is a bad bet so I'm optimistic we'll continue to see really interesting things in the near future

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if all things remain the same in terms of computing power and availability of data

Right, but that's exactly the thing that is changing. All the promises of "Big data" can now actually be realized. The trick is that for the data sources that were set up long ago, is cleaning them and making sure they are structured correctly.

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