Nice flow of thoughts in your article Nachiketa. Your article reminds me of the scene from Swades (by Ashutosh Gowariker and Shah Rukh Khan) when a local farmer predicts about the rains in their village seeing the clouds, leaving SRK stunned (as he plays a data-crunching scientist from NASA). You have also answered to the previous queries very well citing examples of the Machine being beaten by Grandmasters. So what I conclude from this discussion is that Data analysis is very important but at times things also have to be thought beyond the numbers, just like a long term judgmental and expert opinion after you have calculated the NPVs and IRRs of projects. Could you please tell me if Data- and Gut- conclusions are always two sides of the same coin or whether one holds a slight edge over the other in specific fields?