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Data science: challenges and directions

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While it may not be possible to build a data brain identical to a human, data science can still aspire to imaginative machine thinking.

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          Communications of the ACM  Volume 60, Issue 8
          August 2017
          92 pages
          ISSN:0001-0782
          EISSN:1557-7317
          DOI:10.1145/3127343
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