MIT CSAIL Feature Set Selection

Another kind of analysis automation.   Whereas we might have otherwise used human expertise to choose feature sets. ( Intuition?)   I would also ask if this works for all domains.

MIT developing a system that replaces human intuition for big data analysis
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) researchers at the Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL) are looking to take human intuition out of big data analysis by letting computers choose the feature set used to identify predictive patterns in the data. This effort is called “Data Science Machine” and so far the prototype of this software has beaten 615 of 908 teams competing for the same capability (across three data science competitions). ... "