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It’s Time To Look At Some of the Proprietary Code Running in the US–Too Many Companies and Banks Are Playing “Techno-God” Saying “Trust Me” With the Numbers and Stats…

Maret 04, 2015 0

Well somebody had to say it and I know I’m not alone and it is not only healthcare but the financial markets as well. How much have we read about high frequency trading and how they “rig” everything..tons of it and Michael Lewis even wrote a book. Not all p…

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“Citizen Score” in China, A Huge Warning For America About the Loss of Privacy, Lifestyle and Personal Worth As Noted by the ACLU With This Orwellian Nightmare

Oktober 10, 2015 0

You may or may not be aware of what’s going on with Big Data here but in China this is the deal, a Citizen Score that will determine everyone’s worth by using all sources of data available. So this is happening only in China? Wrong..we have Excess Scoring fo…

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Senator Schumer of New York Calling for Privacy Protections With Sharing Data From Wearable Devices, As FTC Found Some Are Sending Data To 3rd Parties, Once Again Need To License the Data Sellers Distributors

Agustus 17, 2014 0

Of course this fell right into my backyard campaign once again and once again I’ll state tha t we need an index on “who” all the data sellers and distributors are in the US. Now that additional “data flipping” is taking place to where you are sold, re-querie…

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Somebody Needs to Start Calling “Foul” On Proprietary Predictive Algorithms When They Cannot Be Replicated For Accuracy As This Accelerates Inequality and Promotes Even More Data Selling For Profit

Agustus 12, 2014 0

Predictive analytics have been oversold in many areas. I’m not saying there’s not good use for looking for patterns and determining outcomes as there is but it is getting to the point to where anyone can create a model and claim “it works”. When the model…

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Algorithms Rule Us All--Automated Risk Scores…Tons of Error Bars, Bias and More-The US Digital Consumer Scoring System For Corporate Profit Keeps Raging On…VPRO documentary–2018

Desember 07, 2018 0

This is a great watch and lot of information from Cathy O’Neil, author of “Weapons of Math Destruction” and computer scientist Jaron Lanier. Nobody is minding the shop as you can’t ask a machine for an appeal or know how the machine computed “One Trick Algo…

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Online Data Brokers Persist, Listing Consumers on Chronic Disease Mailing Lists And More–Need To License and Index All Data Sellers, Brokers, Banks, Companies, Otherwise You Don’t Have a Complete Listing of Who They Are…

November 25, 2014 0

As much as this is in the news, it still persists and people don’t like it, especially when it’s flawed and it really represents some sloppy data work, all to make a buck. The FTC has again asked for help from Congress. The TV station went knocking door to …

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Excess Scoring of US Consumers, US Citizens-Scored into Oblivion By Proprietary Algorithms and Formulas, Never Duplicated or Tested for Accuracy-Profits of Big Business And A White House Executive Command To Continue the Abuse..

September 20, 2015 0

If you read here often enough then you know I address this topic from time to time as companies and people do cheat with their software. If you watch the markets you see folks like Nanex post charts every day giving out visuals on where the cheating is. Un…

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How Long Before the Data Scientist Demand Begins To Slow? About Half of the Analytics Investments Will Be A Wasted Investment As Some Data Will Prove To Be Non-Relevant to Solving “Real World” Situations At Hand

September 01, 2014 0

Now what kind of a question is that? Of course industries such as social networks like Facebook will always have a demand but that’s not what I’m talking about here, but rather the need for a business to hire data scientists. Right now the move is hot and e…

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