Without the discipline of having a wife to come home to, you end up just working all the time. Anthony Goldbloom Read Quote
You want to evaluate future borrowers, but in order to train an algorithm that will help you identify future defaults, you have to train it and evaluate it on past data. Anthony Goldbloom Read Quote
I love kite surfing and mountain bike riding. It’s kind of interesting; my kite surfing ability has probably deteriorated with the rate of Kaggle’s success. Anthony Goldbloom Read Quote
I think I’m okay at everything and not spectacular at any one thing that Kaggle does. Anthony Goldbloom Read Quote
If competition for Kaggle’s top talent becomes fierce enough among banks, insurance companies, hedge funds – we hope the world’s best data scientists will earn more than $50 million per year, just like the world’s best hedge fund managers. Anthony Goldbloom Read Quote
Business analytics or predictive modelling is a $100 billion industry, and $41 billion is spent on outsourced business analytics every year. I think that’s about twice the size of the movie industry – it’s really big. Anthony Goldbloom Read Quote
Our view is that the very best data miners or statisticians can earn as much as the very best golfers or tennis players. Anthony Goldbloom Read Quote
We think Facebook and Google know a lot about us – who knows more about us than AmEx, MasterCard and Visa? They know exactly what we spend and where we spent it… so they’re looking at ways to unlock it. Anthony Goldbloom Read Quote
Companies are getting bitten by hiring a data scientist who isn’t really a data scientist. Anthony Goldbloom Read Quote
Big data is mostly about taking numbers and using those numbers to make predictions about the future. The bigger the data set you have, the more accurate the predictions about the future will be. Anthony Goldbloom Read Quote
