Automating the Data Scientists by Tom Simonite Software could automate some of the work performed by such data scientists, in hopes of making sophisticated data skills more widely available. Computers run complex mathematical operations on large collections of data, and selling data analysis software is a growing business. But human creativity and expertise is still needed to choose and deploy the methods that can explain the patterns in a data set. The automatic statistician is one of a handful of tools being built to automate some of that expertise. more…