It seems like every week we see another headline highlighting the promise of data to improve healthcare, from convolutional neural networks beating cardiologists at detecting cardiac arrhythmia to incredible advances in computer vision feeding speculation that radiologists will all soon be out of work. Given these developments, and the fact ...

Which is better: machine learning or statistics? Hopefully the way that question is phrased highlights its ridiculousness, but with all the hype around machine learning these days you’d be forgiven for thinking that machine learning is the answer to all data-related questions. However, statistics departments aren’t shuttering or ...