Interesting Quotes by Anthony Goldbloom

It turns out that with Twitter data alone, we can go quite some way into figuring out someone's personality.

— Anthony Goldbloom

You want to evaluate future borrowers, but in order to train an algorithm that will help you identify future defaults, you have to train…

— Anthony Goldbloom

Companies are getting bitten by hiring a data scientist who isn't really a data scientist.

— Anthony Goldbloom

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…

— Anthony Goldbloom

Without the discipline of having a wife to come home to, you end up just working all the time.

— Anthony Goldbloom

I got really excited about the idea of data-driven startup just as I was starting Kaggle.

— Anthony Goldbloom

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…

— Anthony Goldbloom

Big data is mostly about taking numbers and using those numbers to make predictions about the future. The bigger the data set you have,…

— Anthony Goldbloom

I think I'm okay at everything and not spectacular at any one thing that Kaggle does.

— Anthony Goldbloom

Startup stories are always smoother in the telling than they are in reality. A startup is not one, but a series of 'Aha!' moments,…

— Anthony Goldbloom

We think Facebook and Google know a lot about us - who knows more about us than AmEx, MasterCard and Visa? They know exactly…

— Anthony Goldbloom

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…

— Anthony Goldbloom