More data usually beats better algorithms
Email from John Worsley. I teach a class on Data Mining <http://www.stanford.edu/class/cs345a> at Stanford. Students in my class are expected to do a project that does some non-trivial data mining. Many students opted to try their hand at theNetflix Challenge <http://www.netflixprize.com/> : to design a movie recommendations algorithm that does better than the one developed …