The Hidden Biases in Big Data

By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. The Hidden Biases in Big Data
Kate Crawford, Harvard Business Review Blogs, April 1, 2013
Norwood Russell Hanson authored one of the most significant attacks on traditional empiricism with ther argument that all data is 'theory-laden', that is, that what counts as data depends on how we interpret what we perceive. The figures in the image above, for example, may resemble antelopes, but in a different context, the same figures may be interpreted as pelicans. More...