Is "Data-Centric AI" REALLY the "next big thing" in AI?

There's been a growing amount of research on the topic of data-centric ai, now even with software being dedicated to it (tagged "data-centric" and so on).

This one is [super fresh in Neurocomputing](https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0925231223007087?dgcid=author), which is a Q1 publication!

In short, it describes a Python package that generates a detailed report about the data, including missing values, distribution of data, correlations, data quality alerts, etc. I've seen a few others in the same scope...

I work specifically in data quality (research) …

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