Why More Data Is Not Always Better

Even “big data” comes with limitations

Michael Grogan
Towards Data Science
5 min readAug 8, 2020

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Over the past few years, there has been a growing consensus that the more data one has, the better the eventual analysis will be.

However, just as humans can become overwhelmed by too much information — so can machine learning models.

Hotel Cancellations as an example

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