Wednesday, November 30, 2016

Gopro struggles

http://www.chicagotribune.com/bluesky/technology/ct-gopro-staff-cuts-blm-bsi-20161130-story.html

Go figure a company that is clueless in the people they hire is struggling. 

Friday, November 18, 2016

Not accurate at all

http://thenextweb.com/shareables/2016/11/18/big-data-predict-future/

This predictive world site is pretty cool, but mostly inaccurate.   It took some Facebook info and whatever else it could find , but if I need to go in and edit almost every category, it's kind of useless.  And even then it was so variable it's not funny.

If you change the salary from say $50 to $200 the life expectancy goes up 10+ years.  And they say money doesn't buy happiness.  Well according to the predictive site just making more money means living 10+ more years. 

Monday, November 14, 2016

Bad data is bad data.

http://www.pymnts.com/big-data/2016/the-seven-deadly-data-sins-of-the-2016-american-election-for-president/

The Infrastructure Disappears. The Relationship Remains.

My kids play video games.  Sometimes too much. It used to be Roblox and Minecraft and then Fortnite and who knows what else as they gravitat...