Ever the inquisitive data scientist, Nie is analyzing survey data to figure out how it all came about.

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"Our goal is to do what a top data scientist would do if given the user's data -- but to do it automatically in just a few seconds, " said Stephen Wolfram.

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If you can get a single data scientist to build one of these functions, then with a SQL wrapper you can expose it to business analysts.

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