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Roland Gesthuizen

Big Data | Debunking Five Big Data Myths | Technology, IT - 0 views

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  • Roland Gesthuizen on 14 May 13
     
    "Kate Crawford of the MIT Centre for Civic Media goes behind the numbers to debunk five myths about big data."
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Big Data Begins: IT Hero Rising - CA Technologies Corporate Blog: Perspectives - CA Tec... - 0 views

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shared by Roland Gesthuizen on 08 Sep 13 - No Cached
  • Roland Gesthuizen on 08 Sep 13
     
    "Let's get the harsh facts out there first - IT's in trouble, deep trouble. It has become way too reactionary. By IT I mean 'traditional' IT, the time honored 'old school' way of doing things. The pace of tech adoption is accelerating. By rights this should be a terrific opportunity for technologists and IT teams. In reality, old school IT has been shocked and awed by the consumerization of IT. "
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Think twice before using Twitter as a data source » Nieman Journalism Lab - 0 views

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shared by Roland Gesthuizen on 22 Jul 13 - No Cached
  • All that’s not to say that Twitter’s not incredibly useful as a data source
  • Just be aware of its limits and be careful about assuming what it produces represents any larger reality
  • different versions of Twitter data can return different — sometimes even mutually contradictory — results
  • Roland Gesthuizen on 22 Jul 13
     
    "At Source, Jacob Harris notes that, as appealing as the Twitter API may be as a source of what-people-are-thinking data, it's hardly perfect. Twitter's demographics aren't representative of either Internet users as a whole or the broader population, and geocoding data is sparse and inconsistent. "
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