"View from Nowhere" On the cultural ideology of Big Data:http://thenewinquiry.com/essays/view-from-nowhere/ …
@GarrettAdamPeck yeah, that's a silly word to use for this. The main recent lesson of "big data", IMO, is this:
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@GarrettAdamPeck if you have an immense number of examples of subjective human judgement, you can surprisingly often extract a template, -
@GarrettAdamPeck which can be stupidly applied by a computer to simulate similar subjective judgements in the future - not perfectly, -
@GarrettAdamPeck but if the type of judgement is simple and structured enough, then enough to be useful. -
@GarrettAdamPeck objectivity don't enter into it. -
@avibryant But, see, this is the crux of the issue: you're careful in the way you describe this process. Hence, a reasonable claim is made -
@avibryant The issue, as I see it, is that good work gets 'filtered' to the public in a way that distorts the reality of what's being done
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