Mongoose: How the CDC is manipulating data to prop-up “vaccine effectiveness”

How the CDC is manipulating data to prop-up “vaccine effectiveness” The US Center for Disease Control (CDC) is altering its practices of data logging and testing for “Covid19” in order to make it seem the experimental gene-therapy “vaccines” are effective at preventing the alleged disease. They made no secret of this, announcing the policy changes …

Stephen Arnold: Fruit of Tainted Tree: An Interesting Metaphor and a Challenge for Data Removal Methods

I am not legal eagle.  In fact, legal eagles frighten me.  I clutch my billfold, grab my sweater, and trundle away as fast as my 77 year old legs permit. I do read legal info which seems interesting. “FTC Says That One Cannot Retain the Fruit of the Tainted Tree.” That’s a flashy metaphor for …

Stephen E. Arnold: Why Use an Open Source Database?

Why Use an Open Source Database? Brilliant Inadvertent Explanation I thought, “Why bother to read ‘Everything You Should Know about the Oracle Database.’” I am delighted that I did. I read the article in The Tech Block twice! The information attempts to explain some of Oracle’s licensing guidelines. The author does a workmanlike job of …

Stephen E. Arnold: On Complexity, Stupid Computers, Worthless Big Data, and Total Surveillance . . More Fuel for the Web 3.0 Fire!

8 Complexity Analysis Underscores a Fallacy in the Value of Mindless Analysis of Big Data A Business Case for Search in the Time of Covid and the SolarWinds Misstep Facial Recognition? Old Hat. Now It Is Behavioral Recognition Google and Microsoft in Australia: Ripping the Fabric of Some of the Internet? Phi Beta Iota: Arnold …

Berto Jongman: Data Journalism Handbook

The Data Journalism Handbook Towards A Critical Data Practice Liliana Bounegru, Jonathan Gray (eds) The Data Journalism Handbook: Towards a Critical Data Practice provides a rich and panoramic introduction to data journalism, combining both critical reflection and practical insight. It offers a diverse collection of perspectives on how data journalism is done around the world …

Martin Geddes: Real-Time Data and Monetization of Humans

Tip of the Hat to Zero Hedge for its post on real-time data but need to look deeper. Tightest OODA wins, all other things being equal. “Data” today fits the paradigm of disruptive innovation, which start small but often follows an S-curve of adoption and therefore influence and importance. The events of 2020 pushed “Data” …