The tools and techniques of data science and advanced analytics can be used to solve many problems. In some cases – self-driving cars, face recognition, machine translation – those technologies make tasks possible that previously were impossible to automate. That is an amazing, transformative accomplishment. But I want to sing a paean to a mundane but important aspect of data science – the ability to intelligently put lists of things in a better order.
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