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“When you read parts of the applications, it’s really clear that this is spyware and a surveillance system meant to serve you up to advertisers,” says Jamie Court, the president of Consumer Watchdog, “The companies”, Mr. Court added, are “basically going to be finding out what our home life is like in qualitative ways.” Sapna…

Sometimes you have to read the minds of your customers. For the last few weeks I’ve been working with one of the managers on developing a snapshot report requested by the customer, except we can’t seem to know what they really want. They seem to change their minds each week. I’m not in the meetings…

The Economist had a special section on AI in the magazine last week. Over the last few years I’ve been tracking articles that discuss AI, what it could do, who is likely to be impacted and what we should do as far as skills upgrading. Since I have been doing readings for a couple of…

This is going to be a short little post on what I’ve been thinking rather than something on data, Excel, finance or otherwise. It comes about because I will be working on updating the ACA section, there is so much going on in the news, and I’m also trying to keep up with my drawing/painting….

How can we instill empathy? Is it only possible when the person undergoes the same trauma as others before he understands the other person’s viewpoint? I recently read an article about some, not a lot, conservatives are starting to move toward universal health care. The reason is they are starting to understand some of the…

“The value of universities to a capitalist society depends on their ability to resist capitalism, to carve out space for intellectual endeavors that don’t have obvious metrics or market value.” New York Times, “The Misguided Drive to Measure Learning Outcomes”, Molly Worthen, February 23, 2018 I was reading an article about learning and higher education…