Not so coincidentally an article with this telling title landed in my inbox exactly on the same day that we announced release 1 of the TDA language data exchange portal. "The unreasonable effectiveness of data" is an article written by three researchers at Google* and published by the IEEE Computer Society in their March/April journal. Why is it, so ask the authors, that physics can be so neatly explained with simple mathematical formulas, while economics fail to model human behavior and grammar is suffocated by hundreds of rules and just as many exceptions
