The big deal about “big data”—your guide to what the heck it actually means

The big deal about “big data”—your guide to what the heck it actually means.

-- Tom

 

Philosophy of Big Data

More Information: Presentation, Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yb4oXFGxsM4, Paper (Pdf: 261.2 KB)

-- Tom

 

Big data is coming for your purchase history - to charge you more money.

-- Tom

 

They call that "market segmentation"

And it's already being done. I've seen it personally, using some of my pseudonyms.

 

Hmm, sometimes things might get the other way around: "One-to-one selling pits each seller against a far more knowledgeable and sophisticated individual."

 

The dark side of big data

http://www.nextgov.com/big-data/2016/04/dark-side-big-data/127338/

 

yeap, fortunately technology works to whoever uses it, that's why they're so keen on outlawing encryption,
it's all about control; why is it so hard to explain that whatever reduces individual liberties is inherently nefarious?

 

It's not that it's hard to explain. It's just that control freaks disagree. They believe that liberty must be limited, in the interest of overall social welfare.

 

Plus, they are the ones who define what social welfare is, building their huge empires in the process.

 

Right, that too.