Nice sociology of info two-fer in Forbes article about Target being able to detect pregnancy based on purchases (see also “How Companies Learn Your Secrets”in
Tag: data mining
No Such Thing as Evanescent Data
Pretty good coverage of the “iphone keeps track of where you’ve been” story in today’s NYT “Inquiries Grow Over Apple’s Data Collection Practices” and in
Data Exhaust and Informational Efficiency
Heard an interesting talk by Paul Kedrosky a few weeks ago at PARC titled Data Exhaust, Ladders, and Search. The gist of the talk is
Outflanking "the Human" with Information
Two stories in NYT today about data crunching. One on mapping neuron connections in mice to understand how brains work. The other on using statistics
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