Category: Commentary
Everything filed under Commentary.
Tragic Documentation
The "data science" feed URL is https://rud.is/b/category/r/feed/…
The ? Resistance
I need to be up-front about something: I'm somewhat partially at fault for ? being elected. While I did not vote for him, I could not in any good conscience vote for his Democratic rival. I wrote in a ticket that had one Democrat and one…
North Carolina's Neighborhood
When I saw the bombastic headline "North Carolina is no longer classified as a democracy" pop up in my RSS feeds today (article link: http://www.newsobserver.com/opinion/op-ed/article122593759.html ) I knew it'd help feed polarization bear…
The Actual, Über, Ultimate Fake News List
It is surprisingly shorter (or longer if you grok regular expressions) than you think it might be: http[s]://.…
Jumping on the "Banned" Wagon
Where's the ACLU? They'd be right there if this was an alt-right'er asking to ban books with salacious content they deem (rightly or wrongly) "inappropriate" or "harmful" to teens. I hope they step up and fight the fight the good fight…
The Most Important Hashtag for 2017
When something pops up in the news, on Twitter, Facebook or even (ugh) Gab claiming or teasing findings based on data I believe it's more important than ever to reply with some polite text and a #showmethedata hashtag. We desperately…
The Devil is in the Details
The \first public informational video\ from the PEOTUS didn't add a full transcript of the video to the web site and did not provide (at least as of 0700 EST on 2016-11-22) their own text annotations/captions to the…
This is not cool.
First it was OpenDNS selling their souls (and, [y]our data) to Cisco (whom I don't trust at all with my…
Dis-ingenuous
If those were real, functional bulbs that were destroyed…spreading real, irreclaimable refuse…all to shill a far less than revolutionary "professional" laptop…then, just how "enlightened" is Apple,…
Stop.
Stop. — rud.is blog archive