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The coming war on the hidden algorithms that trap people in poverty | MIT Technology Review

technologyreview.com/2020/12/04/1013068/algorithms-create-a-poverty-trap-lawyers-fight-back/

A growing group of lawyers are uncovering, navigating, and fighting the automated systems that deny the poor from housing, jobs, and basic services.

• algorithms, tag
• technology, tag
• ethics, tag
• poverty, tag
• ai, tag
• algorithm, tag
• data, tag
• culture, tag
• ·3 years ago

How the U.S. Military Buys Location Data from Ordinary Apps

vice.com/en/article/jgqm5x/us-military-location-data-xmode-locate-x

• privacy, tag
• government, tag
• data, tag
• surveillance, tag
• databrokers, tag
• ·3 years ago

Response to Kohavi's note on non-significance in A/B testing - Big Data, Plainly Spoken (aka Numbers Rule Your World)

junkcharts.typepad.com/numbersruleyourworld/2020/01/response-to-kohavis-note-on-non-significance-in-ab-testing.html

Kaiser Fung (Principal Analytics Prep, Numbersense) explains a note on A/B testing by Ron Kohavi, which advises against adopting treatments deemed statistically insignificant.

• analytics, tag
• decisions, tag
• errors, tag
• data, tag
• shipping, tag
• a/b_testing, tag
• ·3 years ago

Jacques Corby-Tuech - Marketers are Addicted to Bad Data

jacquescorbytuech.com/writing/marketers-addicted-bad-data

• business, tag
• advertising, tag
• marketing, tag
• data, tag
• ads, tag
• ·3 years ago

Covid-19: The global crisis — in data

ig.ft.com/coronavirus-global-data/

Charts and maps show paradoxes of a pandemic that has claimed a million lives

• coronavirus, tag
• data, tag
• visualisation, tag
• ·3 years ago

Project Cambria: Translate your data with lenses

inkandswitch.com/cambria.html

Changing schemas in distributed software is hard. Could adopting bidirectional lenses help?

• database, tag
• api, tag
• data, tag
• code, tag
• ·3 years ago

Goodhart’s Law and Why Measurement is Hard

ribbonfarm.com/2016/06/09/goodharts-law-and-why-measurement-is-hard/

• management, tag
• metrics, tag
• measurement, tag
• economics, tag
• data, tag
• analytics, tag
• ·3 years ago

microCOVID Project

microcovid.org/calculator

• statistics, tag
• calculator, tag
• risk, tag
• data, tag
• covid, tag
• ·3 years ago

Data dredging - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Data_dredging

• stats, tag
• data, tag
• statistics, tag
• ·3 years ago

Scientists rise up against statistical significance

nature.com/articles/d41586-019-00857-9

Valentin Amrhein, Sander Greenland, Blake McShane and more than 800 signatories call for an end to hyped claims and the dismissal of possibly crucial effects.

• science, tag
• statistics, tag
• methodology, tag
• data, tag
• ·5 years ago

noclip

noclip.website/

Model Viewer for random games

• games, tag
• maps, tag
• webgl, tag
• 3d, tag
• data, tag
• cool, tag
• nintendo, tag
• ·5 years ago

Protecting your online privacy is tough—but here's a start — Quartz

qz.com/1525661/your-digital-identity-has-three-layers-and-you-can-only-protect-one-of-them/

What story does your data tell about you?

• privacy, tag
• surveillance, tag
• data, tag
• behaviour, tag
• data_onion, tag
• ·5 years ago

Respectful Collection of Demographic Data – Sarai Rosenberg – Medium

medium.com/@anna.sarai.rosenberg/respectful-collection-of-demographic-data-56de9fcb80e2

Demographic data may be critical to your mission. This article establishes guidelines for respectful design and language for collecting demographic data.

• forms, tag
• copywriting, tag
• user_experience, tag
• demographics, tag
• data, tag
• collection, tag
• content_strategy, tag
• gender, tag
• ·5 years ago

‘I made Steve Bannon’s psychological warfare tool’: meet the data war whistleblower | News | The Guardian

theguardian.com/news/2018/mar/17/data-war-whistleblower-christopher-wylie-faceook-nix-bannon-trump

• journalism, tag
• politics, tag
• election, tag
• data, tag
• government, tag
• brexit, tag
• ·6 years ago

Every Noise at Once

everynoise.com/engenremap.html

• music, tag
• genre, tag
• visualisation, tag
• data, tag
• reference, tag
• map, tag
• scatterplot, tag
• spotify, tag
• ·6 years ago

Tad - A Desktop Viewer App for Tabular Data

tadviewer.com/

• data, tag
• tool, tag
• csv, tag
• analysis, tag
• tabular, tag
• database, tag
• open_source, tag
• data_science, tag
• ·6 years ago

Tangle: a JavaScript library for reactive documents

worrydream.com/Tangle/

• data, tag
• interaction, tag
• js, tag
• library, tag
• javascript, tag
• visualisation, tag
• text, tag
• ui, tag
• ·6 years ago

Lists.design

lists.design/

A gallery of real data ready to be placed in your design. Kind of like an App Store for fake content. Want to design with real data ? There's a list for that.

• mockup, tag
• content, tag
• design, tag
• resources, tag
• tool, tag
• data, tag
• ·7 years ago

Timescale

timescaledb.com/

An open-source time-series database optimized for fast ingest and complex queries.

• databases, tag
• data, tag
• sql, tag
• postgresql, tag
• time_series, tag
• ·7 years ago

Seeing Theory

students.brown.edu/seeing-theory/

A visual introduction to probability and statistics.

• statistics, tag
• probability, tag
• data, tag
• interactive, tag
• visualisation, tag
• ·7 years ago