But what is this data you refer to? No textile chemist knows exactly what it is that the buyer tests when he feels a tuft of cotton. Presumably there’s the average length of the threads, their feel, the extent and nature of their slickness, the way they hang together, and so on. —Several dozen items, subconsciously weighed, out of years of experience. But the quantitative nature of these tests is not known; maybe even the very nature of some of them is not known. So we have nothing to feed the Machine.
Isaac Asimov
I, Robot
I, Robot
Welcome
My name is Daniel Lizotte, but most people call me Dan. I am a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Michigan in the Department of Statistics, and affiliated with the Institute for Social Research. I am part of Susan Murphy's research group. Here, you'll find some information about what I do at the U of M.
