September 2025
Beginner to intermediate
200 pages
5h 48m
English
‘We can collect all of the data in the world, but why?’
TOM GROGAN
Faris Yakob shares the view that:
Corporations, entities, nation states are unable to communicate with themselves in anything except numbers. So all qualitative data gets stripped out at lower levels, because it has to, because nothing is self-similar and fungible enough at the top level to make a comparison set across country-level data or corporation-level data except numbers, which means you turn everything into numbers.
And this proposes significant risks in how data is used by powerful groups, including brands. His point is that ‘big data is data that is so large you can’t work it out yourself; you need a machine to look ...
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