#bigdata · Louche Cannon

On "Trusting the Data" and the specter of AI-induced decision paralysis

Mon, 28 Oct 2024 22:09:00 +0200

Bookmarked https://davekarpf.substack.com/p/on-trusting-the-data-and-the-specter?triedRedirect=true

Big Data is Dead

Mon, 27 May 2024 11:55:04 +0200

Bookmarked https://motherduck.com/blog/big-data-is-dead/

Apache Iceberg

Wed, 01 Mar 2023 22:23:27 +0200

Bookmarked https://iceberg.apache.org/

k-anonymity - Wikipedia

Tue, 18 Oct 2022 07:35:19 +0200

Bookmarked https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=K-anonymity&oldid=1108999307

Simon Willison on Twitter: "My own answer: I either open the CSV directly in the Datasette Desktop Mac application (https://t.co/WMWqQgWNwC) or I do this: sqlite-utils insert /tmp/data.db rows big.csv --csv datasette /tmp/data.db That gives me a table cal

Tue, 20 Sep 2022 22:14:10 +0200

Bookmarked https://mobile.twitter.com/simonw/status/1572295332767371265#.

Polars

Tue, 20 Sep 2022 22:06:09 +0200

Bookmarked https://www.pola.rs/

Dask — Dask documentation

Tue, 20 Sep 2022 22:01:48 +0200

Bookmarked https://docs.dask.org/en/stable/

The Markup

Tue, 19 Jul 2022 09:38:30 +0200

Bookmarked https://themarkup.org/

Big Tech Is Watching You. We’re Watching Big Tech.

Weapons of Math Destruction | Data & Society

Tue, 19 Jul 2022 09:33:02 +0200

Bookmarked https://listen.datasociety.net/episodes/weapons-of-math-destruction

Tracing her experiences as a mathematician and data scientist working in academia, finance, and advertising, Cathy O’Neil will walk us through what she has learned about the pervasive, opaque, and unaccountable mathematical models that regulate our lives, micromanage our economy, and shape our behavior. Cathy will examine how statistical models often pose as neutral mathematical tools, lending a veneer of objectivity to decisions that can severely harm people at critical life moments...