DataKnightmare Does English!
Hey, the first English episode of Dataknightmare is available for download!
The Real Real Threat of AI
AI can be a tool of colonial rent extraction, or a tool of progress. It all depends on how we interpret data, as a resource to scour or as value to invest.
Follow-up on the Mother of All Data Grabs
The mother of all data grabs is raising attention: a big international name is reporting on it, and an MP has filed an official interrogation.
The Mother of All Data Grabs
You thought the Royal Free/Deep Mind affair was serious? Italy is giving away the health data of all its citizens to IBM Watson Health because reasons, *and* paying for it.
The Emperor’s Speech
[Note: the English is well below par, this time, I know. The reason is that what follows was not originally delivered as a post, but as episode 1×19 of my podcast in Italian, dataKnightmare. Hence the curious constructs and abundance of coordinate clauses. I...
Coding is not ‘fun’…
Why all this insistence on the word “coding”, which I have hardly met in 30 years and in its being fun?
Against Coding
Focusing on coding as if it were an end and not a means is the worst way to acquaint kids with computer science. Computer science is not the code, but the understanding of a problem that allows the writing of that code.
#Pesaro, what’s up? A Determination Translated From Bureaucratic Newspeak
A Mayor seeking visibility. An IT with the authority and accountability of a pet gerbil. Microsoft vs. FLOSS. If you love disaster movies, bring popcorn.
Of Marketing and Big Data
I have a problem with Marketing owning Big Data in businesses.
How to start a #CoderDojo? Here’s How!
CoderDojoTools is a set of checklists to create and run a CoderDojo with the “Richard MacDuff” Model, that defines the basic ethos of my dojos . It’s on Github, share and enjoy!
Two reflections from Big Hero 6
The future is already here, and we’re not.
This is robot work done right
There’s much confusion about robots soon overtaking us. The confusion stems from the wrong sense we give to “overtaking” when we speak of robots. This results in resisting robots where we should welcome them, and not reflecting on our new place in the world. Which is not
Just asking.
Dear ex-prospective employer: you deserve to be big-four’ed to your last pound.
UX Research: Quants Vs. Quals?
For UXR Quals, I’m too quantitative. For UXR Quants, I’m too qualitative. They are both wrong, and working on a one-sided brain is so ’70s.
Surviving Facebook on the road
Facebook on a mobile is obnoxious.
All The Problems in UXR in One Chart
UXR, and all technology for that matter, would be so simple if users just behaved as requested…
There’s No “Reality” In Social Media. Get Over It.
You will have heard of how Facebook ran an experiment on 600K+ unaware users and concluded that yes, it is possible to tweak people’s emotions by selectively filtering their facebook timeline. In their own words: We show, via a massive (N = 689,003) experiment...
All The Problems In Data Science In One Chart
Data Science is science. Science is built on facts, while careers, well, not always.