Real data is messy. ...It's all very noisy out there. Very hard to spo…

Tom Stoppard
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Real data is messy. ...It's all very noisy out there. Very hard to spot the tune. Like a piano in the next room, it's playing your song, but unfortunately it's out of whack, some of the strings are missing, and the pianist is tone deaf and drunk- I mean, the noise! Impossible! ✨ Tom Stoppard (2013). Tom Stoppard Plays 5: The Real Thing; Night & Day; Hapgood; Indian Ink; Arcadia, p.62, Faber & Faber
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