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I'm up to 125 Read now on goodreads. I always enjoy reviewing my stats at the end of the year!

This is an interesting look at data science and how it can be used and misused, based on your perspective. Fascinating. But not entirely surprising.

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Awesome intro to how data models can inadvertently (or advertently) screw individuals and society over. Was going to be a great prelude to a data training but then the rona hit.

Leapt to the top of my TBR list as soon as I saw it.

Quick summary of good practices when coding using Python.

I'm currently in the section of the book covering the us news and world report impact on college admissions. I want to dig more into the industry that rose around this, anyone know of further reading on this? This feels similarly systemic as the tax prep market and the inefficiencies in health care.

(2021) Scharf offers some provocative ideas about the "dataome": all of the information that humans have encoded (and are encoding) into our environment, and which, considered as an entity, has curious properties -- and maybe apocalyptic consequences. I love the sense of wonder here, and am intrigued about possible research, but too many arguments seem to me to rely on fuzzy definitions, shaky metaphors, and false equivalencies.

"In this instant, a precious one-second span out of the four and a half billion years Earth has existed as a bejeweled sphere of complexity and dynamism, I am gripped by one puzzle only: Can those really be tears glistening in the eyes of the museum guide standing in front of me?"

In other words, I might as well settle in because for the next 300 pages, word economy is out the window.

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Great documentary and the author of this book is featured!