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Richard VeryardFollowing my previous posts on Netflix, I have been reading a detailed analysis in Ed Finn’s book, What Algorithms Want (2017).Finn’s answer to my question Does Big Data Drive Netflix Content? is no, at least not directly. Although Netflix had used dat…
In many blogposts I have mentioned the distinction between technology as designed/built and technology in use.I am not sure when I first used these exact terms. I presented a paper to an IFIP conference in 1995 where I used the terms technology-as-devi…
A long time ago, I did some work for a client that had an out-of-date and inflexible billing system. The software would send invoices and monthly statements to the customers, who were then expected to remit payment to clear the balance on their account…
A friend of mine shares an email thread from his organization discussing the definition of CUSTOMER, disagreeing as to which categories of stakeholder should be included and which should be excluded.Why is this important? Why does it matter how the CU…
According to Archilochus, the fox knows many things, but a hedgehog knows one big thing.In his article on AI and the threat to middle class jobs, Larry Elliot focuses on machine learning and robotics.AI stands to be to the fourth industrial revolution …
#ThinkingWithTheMajority #chatGPT has attracted considerable attention since its launch in November 2022, prompting concerns about the quality of its output as well as the potential consequences of widespread use and misuse of this and similar too…
@Jon_Ayre questions whether an organization’s being data-driven drives the right behaviours. He identifies a number of pitfalls.It’s all too easy to interpret data through a biased viewpointData is used to justify a decision that has already been madeD…
In my post on Ghetto Wifi (June 2010), I mentioned a cafe in East London that provided free coffee, free biscuits and free wifi, and charged customers for the length of time they occupied the table.A cafe has just opened in Tokyo for writers, which cha…
One of the ideas running through my work on #datastrategy is to see data as a means to an end, rather than an end in itself. As someone might once have written, Data scientists have only interpreted the world in various ways. The point however is …
#datastrategy My latest book has been published by @Leanpub This is a beta version, and I intend to add more material as well as responding to feedback from readers and making general improvements. Subscribers will always have access to the …
In September 2005, we had reason to worry about the ability of a tightly coupled world to withstand shocks. At that time this included Hurricane Katrina and SARS. More recent crises, including the COVID-19 pandemic and the war in Ukraine have arguably …
From engineering to medicine, professionals are often forced to rely on tests that are not always completely accurate. In this post, I shall look at the tests that millions of people were obliged to use during the pandemic, to check whether they had CO…