The Limitations of Data Science
The problems that data science can solve seem to be limitless when reading some of the articles on the web and in literature. There are, however, theoretical and practical limitations to what a computational analysis can achieve. Besides limits to what we can do, there are also ethical limits to what we should be doing. This final section reflects on some of the boundaries of data science.
The Limits of Computation
The limitations of computation relate to some complex and deeply philosophical issues concerning the limits of human knowledge. This short introduction to this problem looks at the restrictions of measuring physical and social processes, and the limitations of algorithms.
- Limitations of Measurement: The first limitation relates to the fact that our collection of data will always be an incomplete description of reality. In a physical system, choose which points to measure, at which frequency, by which method, and so on. We need...
