Published 23 November 2012
“Data is power” was the catchphrase of Bumblebee from Transformers in the 1980s
Bumblebee’s “Data is power” catchphrase sums up late 20th-Century thinking but, in the 21st-Century, I believe that data is only powerful once paired with categorisation.
Imagine I gave you a list of 1,000 names and email addresses [...]
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Published 23 November 2012
“Data is power” was the catchphrase of Bumblebee from Transformers in the 1980s
Bumblebee’s “Data is power” catchphrase sums up late 20th-Century thinking but, in the 21st-Century, I believe that data is only powerful once paired with categorisation.
Imagine I gave you a list of 1,000 names and email addresses [...]
A 21st-Century tasting note
Posted 16 November 2012
“A medium-bodied wine with aromas and flavours of strawberry, cherry and marzipan. It has a smooth acidity and medium soft tannins.”
“Mendoza, Argentina. 100% Malbec. 2011. 13% alcohol. 4g/l residual sugar.”
Introduction
There’s no such thing as a ‘wrong’ tasting note, but which of the above is most useful? In a [...]