Machine Learning and Econometrics

Some excellent points being made here.   Wth links to the talk and slides. " .... Hal Varian is the chief economist at Google and gave a talk to Electronic Support Group at EECS Department at the University of California at Berkeley in November 2013. The talk was titled Machine Learning and Econometrics and was really focused on what lessons the machine learning can take away from the field of Econometrics. ... "