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Everything You Wanted to Know About Data Mining but Were Afraid to Ask
Big data is everywhere we look these days. Businesses are falling all over themselves to hire ‘data scientists,’ privacy advocates are concerned about personal data and control, and technologists and entrepreneurs scramble to find new ways to collect, control and monetize data. We know that data is powerful and valuable. But how?
This article is an attempt to explain how data mining works and why you should care about it. Because when we think about how our data is being used, it is crucial to understand the power of this practice. Without data mining, when you give someone access to information about you, all they know is what you have told them. With data mining, they know what you have told them and can guess a great deal more. Put another way, data mining allows companies and governments to use the information you provide to reveal more than you think.
To most of us data mining goes something like this: tons of data is collected, then quant wizards work their arcane magic, and then they know all of this amazing stuff. But, how? And what types of things can they know? Here is the truth: despite the fact that the specific technical functioning of data mining algorithms is quite complex — they are a black box unless you are a professional statistician or computer scientist — the uses and capabilities of these approaches are, in fact, quite comprehensible and intuitive.
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Everything You Wanted to Know About Data Mining but Were Afraid to Ask
Big data is everywhere we look these days. Businesses are falling all over themselves to hire ‘data scientists,’ privacy advocates are concerned about personal data and control, and technologists and entrepreneurs scramble to find new ways to collect, control and monetize data. We know that data is powerful and valuable. But how?
This article is an attempt to explain how data mining works and why you should care about it. Because when we think about how our data is being used, it is crucial to understand the power of this practice. Without data mining, when you give someone access to information about you, all they know is what you have told them. With data mining, they know what you have told them and can guess a great deal more. Put another way, data mining allows companies and governments to use the information you provide to reveal more than you think.
To most of us data mining goes something like this: tons of data is collected, then quant wizards work their arcane magic, and then they know all of this amazing stuff. But, how? And what types of things can they know? Here is the truth: despite the fact that the specific technical functioning of data mining algorithms is quite complex — they are a black box unless you are a professional statistician or computer scientist — the uses and capabilities of these approaches are, in fact, quite comprehensible and intuitive.
Read more. [Image: Reuters]
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SHAQ ATTACK! ;-)
The video for “I Feel Better”, directed by Peter Serafinowicz, was described by Pitchfork Media as “re-imag[ining] the British dance pop troupe as a well-manicured and highly choreographed group of dudes […] who get an unexpected visitor or two during a performance before an audience of swooning young ladies.”[1]
In the video, Kyng, Mar’Vaine, Octavian, and Popeye are all members of a hypothetical boyband under the name of Hot Chip. During their performance they’re interrupted by an unnamed man (herewith referred to as Cancer Jesus). As Cancer Jesus attempts to disrupt their performance, Hot Chip challenges him to a fight. However, it quickly becomes apparent that the only tactical moves that Hot Chip know are designed to make teenage female audiences swoon, and are no match.
Cancer Jesus quickly absorbs the souls of Mar’Vaine, Octavian, and Popeye. During Kyng’s last stand, he pulls out the most powerful move he knows - the removal of his shirt. While it’s incredibly effective versus the female audience, Cancer Jesus stands unfazed. After absorbing Kyng’s soul as well, Cancer Jesus takes a moment to release the souls, now under his power. A side effect of absorbing their souls has also granted Cancer Jesus similar powers to the members of Hot Chip, and now he too can make female audiences swoon.
Sadly, this new power comes at a cost. Cancer Jesus’ long time rival, Floaty-Bulging-Eye-Black-Guy, catches news of Cancer Jesus’ new-found moves. Floaty-Bulging-Eye-Black-Guy storms into Cancer Jesus’ performance in a Jealous rage, and starts lasering everyone in sight - but not before Cancer Jesus makes a daring escape (albeit while losing his precious boy band).
”I Feel Better (Hot Chip song) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
(Best music video synopsis ever.)
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