This is Lukas Bergstrom's personal weblog. You might want to visit my professional site. You can also find me on Twitter, Bluesky, and LinkedIn.
Data as radioactive waste
Another Maciej talk: Haunted by Data

I wonder what Jason Scott thinks about all this (I know there's difference between private user data and public web pages, most of the time.)

Most interesting part to me:
But Nature is full of self-modifying, interlocking systems, with interdependent variables you can't isolate. In these vast data spaces, directed iterative search performs better than any amount of data mining.

My contention is that many of you doing data analysis on the real world will run into similar obstacles, hopefully not at the same cost as pharmacology.
Reminds me of something I've heard from multiple people working on data-driven stuff in consumer web stuff: "every variation performed worse than the baseline."

"Directed iterative search" I'm pretty sure means "We'll just try them —and if they don't work — why then we'll just try something else."

Tech
Collaboration, Crowdsourcing, Business, a11y, Shopping, Social, Web, Net, Security, MacOS, Medical, Wearables, Product Management, Android, Visual, Open, s60, Hardware, PIM, Web analytics, Javascript, Automobile, Storage, Energy, Audio, OS, Development, AI, Data, Mobile, barcamp, RSS, WRX

Other
NYC, Games, Housing, Bicycling, Friday, History, Travel, Podcasts, Minnesota, San Francisco, Clothes, Feminism, Quizzes, Video, Food & Drink, Geography, Law, Surfing, Life hacks, Sports, Politik, Statistics, Boston, CrowdFlower, Transportation, California, Berlin, Agriculture, Activism, Personal care, Toys, L.A.

Music
Mailing lists, Musicians, Streams, Lyrics, Shopping, Mixes, Reviews, Events, Videos, Boston, Making, Good tracks, Business, Labels, L.A., History, Booking, Hip-hop, House, Mp3s

People
Life hacks, Health, Gossip, Buddhism, Languages, Enemies, Exercise, Subcultures, Family, Meditation, Weblogs, Vocations, Heroes, Stories, Friends, Me, MOTAS, Working with, ADD

Commerce
Insurance, International Development, Non-profit, Real Estate, IP Law, Shopping, Microfinance, Personal services, Taxes, Management consulting, Investing, Web, Personal finance, Marketing and CRM, Macroeconomics

Arts
Comix, Spoken Word, Burning Man, Poetry, iPad bait, Outlets, Humor, Events, Rhetoric, Literature, Movies, Visual, Animation, Sculpture, Desktop wallpaper bait

Design
Type, Algorithmic, User experience, Cool, Tools, Process, IA, Presentations, Architecture, Data visualization, Web, Furniture

Science
Zoology, Networks, Cognition, Environment, Physics, Statistics and Data, Psychology

Travel
Uganda, Kenya, Kingdom of Siam, Vagabond '08

Photos
Moblog, Friends, Photos I Wish I'd Taken

Philosophy
Mind

Mathematics

Internet classic

One Acre Fund

Subscribe to this site's rss feed

I'm also on Mastodon