June 2, 2019
Doing Health Care Automation the Right Way
Health technology is an ancient concept. There were prosthetics in ancient Egypt a thousand years before the birth of Jesus, stethoscopes and x-rays emerged in the 19th century, and in the mid-19th century, transistors were developed to aid in…
June 1, 2019
AI and the Danger of Fake Data
Sapa Profiles, an Oregon-based metals manufacturer, supplied fake data along with its materials to NASA, causing rockets to burst into flames and costing hundreds the agency of millions of dollars. A report alleging fake votes in the recent Indian…
April 28, 2019
Companies Big and Small Grapple with Data AI Ethics
Five years ago, in The Data Revolution, Rob Kitchin defined “Big Data Ethics” as the construction of systems of right and wrong in relation to the use of (in particular) personal data. The magnitude of data use, and its effect on things like…
April 26, 2019
Four Ways Big Data Can Teach Us About People
Well, we spent almost two billion dollars on political digital ads last year around the world, and that’s a low number compared to what we’ll spend next year. We don’t need to walk through the dozens of articles published every month on the…
March 29, 2019
Reputation & Read Rate Roundup
In just the last few weeks, perhaps because we’re jumping into new political and marketing campaign seasons, a few articles have popped up on read and response rate. One common denominator in rate enhancement is the maintenance of a good sender…
March 1, 2019
Musings on Nonprofits, Advocacy Campaigns, and Big Data
I’m a big fan of how entrepreneurs can use and manage data, but nonprofits have to use and manage data too. Most people know (or would not be surprised to learn) that data append services help nonprofits data-cleanse at the end of the year. This is…
February 27, 2019
Don’t Get Berned by Text Scamming
Last week, lots of folks noticed an unusually heavy rainstorm of texts from sources claiming to be associated with the Bernie Sanders for President campaign–although the campaign had only just begun. One responses was from Anne Laurie, a Daily Kos…
January 31, 2019
Looking into 2019, AI and Data Revisited
At the end of 2018 I published a post citing Cynthia Harvey, who had herself cited a Deloitte survey with bleak predictions tabout companies’ use of AI. That survey had indicated that while more companies (in various industries, not just marketing…
January 27, 2019
The Problem of Unregistered Voters and the Promise of Consumer Data
Based on the partisan rancor over whether the federal government should create an Election Day holiday, it’s doubtful we will see universal or automatic voter registration soon. Still, it’s heartening to see that voter registration and voter…
December 31, 2018
Demand for Data Management – the Logistics and the Ethics
We know that in 2019, demand for data management work will outstrip supply. We’ve seen those numbers. Dataversity’s analysis of this 2019 trend attributes this to the exponential growth in the need for business data, pushing firms to constantly look…