<i>I&#x27;m not sure what an advisor will say about a doc student who says, let&#x27;s just throw reams of data at a machine until we find a meaningful correlation, and then let&#x27;s reason from the correlations</i><p>Currently they are saying <i>yes, please</i>, and desperately trying to source ever bigger volumes of data.<p>Norvig et. al&#x27;s article &quot;The unreasonable effectiveness of data&quot;[1] has been cited over 400 times which is a lot for something with no formula.<p>[1] <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;static.googleusercontent.com&#x2F;media&#x2F;research.google.com&#x2F;en&#x2F;&#x2F;pubs&#x2F;archive&#x2F;35179.pdf" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;static.googleusercontent.com&#x2F;media&#x2F;research.google.co...</a>