In the computer industry, data and conscious thinking are praised, as opposed to an integrated awareness.[1] How is the work going? the task-tracking tools, the commits, and the build results provide data, but only conversations with the team can provide awareness. Awareness of mood and relationships and trends, of uncertainties and risks. Perhaps this is …
Our job is not to write software. Our job is to turn data into information. That we do that through software is an implementation detail. — Dan North, ScanDev 2013. Two things about data these days: there’s a lot of it, and a lot of it is crap. How can we get information out of that? …
We like to take a hunk of data, graph one factor against another, demonstrate correlation, and infer causality. This naive form of analysis is appealing in its simplicity, but it doesn’t cut it in the real world. With Big Data, we can identify correlation out the wazoo, but it’s time to get way more sophisticated …
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