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Ordinarily, I shy away from the New Yorker. It leans so far to the left that I expect the masthead to fall off the cover at any moment. However, this article is interesting. It tells of a college professor of biology teaching a course in how to recognize B.S. Well, college professors are generally lean to the left even more than the New Yorker, and I have a hard time reconciling the irony of such an ideologue teaching such a subject (especially a biologist - we aren't talking about actual fecal material) to children whom the Left is indoctrinating with B.S. Wow, that sentence confuses me and I wrote it, but I can't think of another way of saying it. So many contradictory ideas...
How to Call B.S. on Big Data: A Practical Guide
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15 Insane Things That Correlate With Each Other
Why do these things correlate? These 15 correlations will blow your mind. (Is this headline sensationalist enough for you to click on it yet?)
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This article has more to do with how data is presented and interpreted than Big Data itself. I made a nice career in Big Data, in involves gathering desperate data sources into an organized Data Warehouse and providing the access to the Data Warehouse to everyone that wanted it. The only transformations I ever remember doing on the data during collection was to store it in the same format.........we never changed the data apart from format. Interpretation was left to the end-user and their intelligence with data smoothing algorithums, forecasting and trending formulas, etc. So in my view the author can remove BIG DATA from his course title and replace it with data presentations. I agree with what the author is trying to communicate and he is correct but just do not see why it is tied into BIG DATA.
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Sgt Bob Leonard
You said, "... (it) involves gathering desperate data sources into an organized Data Warehouse..."
I'm gonna' guess here that your spell check defaulted to "desperate" when you actually meant "disparate".
desperate: reckless or dangerous because of despair, hopelessness, or urgency
disparate: utterly different or distinct in kind; unlike things or people
Reading the article reminds me of two quotes I've heard/read, attributed to Mark Twain...
"There are lies. There are damned lies. And then, there are statistics."
and, echoing what you said,
"A lie can circle the globe three times before the Truth can get it's shoes on."
Good article. Good comments.
I'm gonna' guess here that your spell check defaulted to "desperate" when you actually meant "disparate".
desperate: reckless or dangerous because of despair, hopelessness, or urgency
disparate: utterly different or distinct in kind; unlike things or people
Reading the article reminds me of two quotes I've heard/read, attributed to Mark Twain...
"There are lies. There are damned lies. And then, there are statistics."
and, echoing what you said,
"A lie can circle the globe three times before the Truth can get it's shoes on."
Good article. Good comments.
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