dagblog - Comments for "Lies, Damn Lies, and Data Mining"

Drat.

erica20 — Wed, 12 Jun 2013 20:02:23 +0000

In reply to Ummm...too

Drat.

Ummm...too

EmmaZahn — Wed, 12 Jun 2013 19:40:50 +0000

In reply to Well I am going to start a

Ummm...too late?

http://panopticon.com/

Well I am going to start a

erica20 — Wed, 12 Jun 2013 19:23:47 +0000

In reply to Lies, Damn Lies, and Data Mining

Well I am going to start a company that, for a small fee, figures out what the government is figuring out about you.

It's a free country, right?

Your post reminded me of

EmmaZahn — Wed, 12 Jun 2013 16:50:18 +0000

In reply to Lies, Damn Lies, and Data Mining

Your post reminded me of something I snipped from a few days ago. Thought you might be interested.

A Degree in Big Data

Graduate courses are springing up to meet the demand for analysts

Obtaining data is easy; it can come from a huge variety of automated sources, including RFID tags, mouse clicks, or sales receipts. And the analytic software systems—such as SAS Institute’s eponymous SAS and IBM’s SPSS—that are required to work with this data are getting better, says Michael Hasler, director of a new M.S. in Business Analytics program at the University of Texas at Austin. But what’s missing are the people: “You need to take these large unstructured data sets, clean them up, and find insights, but there’s a shortage of talent to do that work,” says Hasler.

It would be just as

Verified Atheist — Wed, 12 Jun 2013 15:31:27 +0000

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It would be just as interesting and important (if not more so) to know how the government is gathering the data it uses, but it's even less likely they'll tell us that!

The statistical explanation

rmrd0000 — Wed, 12 Jun 2013 15:28:57 +0000

In reply to Lies, Damn Lies, and Data Mining

The statistical explanation for the "collateral damage" deaths with drone strikes.

Given the context of this

Michael Wolraich — Wed, 12 Jun 2013 15:27:20 +0000

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Given the context of this post, it would be interesting and important to know how the government is using the data it gathers. But I don't suppose that they'll tell us that.