The following was excerpted from an article published on the website of CS-Can/Info-Can, the nation’s professional society dedicated to representing all aspects of computer science and the interests of the discipline to Canadians.
It’s not about building technology; it’s about finding a solution to an existing problem for the research group of Ihab Ilyas, a professor at the Cheriton School of Computer Science.
The first problem was data uncertainty. Professor Ilyas has always been focused on data science, not in a general sense, but to provide high-quality data for analytics. While working on uncertain and probabilistic databases, he and his team discovered that uncertainty mostly comes from dirtiness in data. In the first phase of his research, Professor Ilyas and his team tried to understand uncertainty in the data we collect, and in 2009 started building systems for data cleaning.
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