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OT: good can come from analysis of human behaviour data
 

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walter
Joined: 11 Jan 2004
Posts: 4391
Location: metro-motown-area

8/8/13 11:16 AM

OT: good can come from analysis of human behaviour data

of course it's subject to the whims and abuse by nation-states and private enterprise, but the potential is there.

Searching Big Data for ‘Digital Smoke Signals’

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/08/08/technology/development-groups-tap-big-data-to-direct-humanitarian-aid.html?pagewanted=1&_r=1&ref=todayspaper

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ErikS
Joined: 19 May 2005
Posts: 8337
Location: Slowing boiling over in the steamy south, Global Warming is real

8/8/13 6:10 PM

I would have thought this was common. I kinda figured that it was one of the main ways social networking companies make their money. Selling our thoughts and whims which we freely provide to them.

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Brian Nystrom
Joined: 26 Jan 2004
Posts: 5096
Location: Nashua, NH

8/9/13 5:28 AM

That's one reason why...

...this forum and others like it is as close as I get to social media.

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