Weapons of Math Destruction – Part 1
Social media sites cut off data flow to U.S. company who resells it to police
Social media sites cut off data flow to U.S. company who resells it to police
The Hitchhiker’s Guide to Big Data
The realm of process automation – those with a deterministic outcome – is here now. The realm of cognitive automation – those with probabilistic outcomes – is just around the bend. A New Approach to Automating Services
A long while back, I set up a Google Alert for the term “Big Data.” Initially, I was not overwhelmed with “finds” and occasionally saw a real gem. But of late, there has been an avalanche of junk and I was just about to cancel the alert when something caught my eye this afternoon. I …
Algo-racism: “The privileged… are processed more by people, the masses by machines.” Read More »
One of my larger projects back when I ran an engineering firm was to inspect all of the buildings owned and/or occupied by the State of Lousiana for asbestos and lead in water fountains. Part of the contract required us to produce floor plans of all the buildings we inspected because the State, at that …
Link to large format: http://www.forbes.com/sites/dovseidman/2016/04/20/is-big-data-killing-the-humanity-in-our-companies/#29cca7bc6de2