Breslow: Social media data is too noisy for assessing creditworthiness
Noah Breslow · Noah Breslow & Abhra Mitra, onDeck // Data Driven #27 // May 2014 (Hosted by FirstMark Capital) · May 28, 2014 · at 9:05
Noah Breslow, CEO of OnDeck, discusses the limitations of relying on social media data when evaluating small business credit risk.
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“Social data, and Abra said this to me many moons ago is, is very, very noisy.”
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