Tag Archive for: data mining

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Staying Afloat in a Sea of Data

Adam Davidson recently wrote "Making Choices in the Age of Information Overload," for the New York Times magazine where he explained how consumer choices have changed in the Information Age.  With so much data about a potential purchase—from…
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Low-Cost Background Checks Ruin Lives

An enraging story by the Associated Press spells it out: computers used by background checkers mix up two people with the same name. Blameless woman gets tagged with a criminal record that isn’t hers, can’t get work and ends up homeless.…