by David Hand | Mar 31, 2020 | How dark data led us astray
Ideally, whenever we have to make a decision we collect all the relevant data and condense it down so that we can make the best decision. However, the notion of “all the relevant data” is an elusive one, and very often, perhaps most often, much of the relevant data...
by David Hand | Mar 17, 2020 | Is there more than this?
Sometimes the phrase “dark data” is used in a narrow sense to describe data that an organisation has collected but which has not yet been used to gain understanding or insight. The data might have been used for an immediate operational purpose (e.g. adding up the...
by David Hand | Mar 3, 2020 | How dark data led us astray
Much dark data arises in the form of entire records missing – people who refuse to take part in surveys, stars which do not radiate in the visible spectrum, patients not yet showing symptoms, and so on. But other dark data are more subtle. One example is when numbers...
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