Comments on: Learning from Data…

By: Matthew Rick

Matthew Rick — Sat, 25 Apr 2009 23:48:35 +0000

I learn a lot from Data. Like that you should name your cat spot, and that sparating the saucer while at warp will rupture the warp field.

By: The Lovable Rogue

The Lovable Rogue — Fri, 24 Apr 2009 05:21:55 +0000

Hey Justin,
I read an interesting book by Stephen Baker last year called the Numerati. Both the book and your insightful post emphasize how we are quickly becoming statistics. Perhaps more alarming than the increasing levels of data sharing is the ease with which our actions can now be predicted and influenced. Choices which we feel ‘we’ are making are increasingly becoming a product of subtle influential marketing techniques. Will we still have free will as access to our data becomes increasingly prevalent? I hope so. As you suggest though, as marketing campaigns are improved to cater for deficiencies identified through the data, the potential influence of these campaigns is likely to increase further.

Chris
TLR

By: Scott Tranter

Scott Tranter — Fri, 24 Apr 2009 04:14:31 +0000

Interesting observations – the privacy aspect of data will scare, shock, and bedazzle technophiles and non-technophiles for the next fifty years.

It appears right now the tools in which data is held and analyzed have become so prevalent that we are in a “golden age” of open and accessible data everywhere. How data is used, spread and ultimately sold will determine whether the public will accept it and whether 50 years from now we know more about each other or less.