On 28.05.2014 13:48, Andreas Röhler wrote:
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http://www.theeuropean.de/gunnar-sohn/8165-die-grenzen-von-big-data
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Ah, sorry, that should go to a german list.
As it might of interest for readers here also, a short description:
The author in link is questioning some marketing practices by companies using
at big-data procedures.
Notably he asks if some underlying algorithms indeed permit the reasoning into the socio-sphere as pretended, allowing judgments on human behavior, being worthy to receive
a bank account etc.
He reports some experiences with firms, which retired their proposal when asked
for the background procedures.
IMHO that's a matter which deserves some attention also from people at the
engineers side.
Now Python might be part of the problem as of the solution here.
What the pubblic might deserve is transparency: institutions processing
personal data should be obliged to publish their sources.
A thing, Python should not have difficulties with...
Cheers,
Andreas
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