"Laziness: The quality that makes you go to great effort to reduce overall energy expenditure. It makes you write labor-saving programs that other people will find useful, and document what you wrote so you don't have to answer so many questions about it. Hence, the first great virtue of a programmer. Also hence, this book. See also impatience and hubris. (LarryWall, ProgrammingPerl, 1st edition)"
> they're usually using open data datasets anyway
They do that in order to be able to judge the performance of various algorithms - they need to have a common standard to test against.
That's a great virtue for programmers in general.
"Laziness: The quality that makes you go to great effort to reduce overall energy expenditure. It makes you write labor-saving programs that other people will find useful, and document what you wrote so you don't have to answer so many questions about it. Hence, the first great virtue of a programmer. Also hence, this book. See also impatience and hubris. (LarryWall, ProgrammingPerl, 1st edition)"
> they're usually using open data datasets anyway
They do that in order to be able to judge the performance of various algorithms - they need to have a common standard to test against.