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The Use and Misuse of Big Data

What is big data? It’s a lot of data. There is no need to try to come up with some more sophisticated definition. That’s all there is to it. It is what it is. Big data got big because so much more of...

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When Big Data Comes Up Small

When you pretend the subjective is objective. The first time I detected a slightly fishy smell in how data was used came from hanging around human resources. At some point the old fashioned employee...

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Coding Our Future: Smaller, Smarter and Everywhere

Some of you may have seen the movie “The Imitation Game.” Set within a British intelligence service during World War II, it is a fictional account of the creation of what some have called the first...

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Coding Our Future: What Becomes of Human Judgement?

If you write algorithms, you are in the business of creating formulas that enable computers to perform tasks, in some cases tasks that otherwise would be done by humans. Initially your goal is to...

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History of Radio: The Enemies of Good Radio

In doing the research for this series of blog posts on the history of radio I read several texts by a variety of authors. There was nary a kind word for the current state of commercial radio in the...

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