By Oren Yiftachel, Jo Little, David Hedgcock, Ian Alexander
ISBN-10: 1402005334
ISBN-13: 9781402005336
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Alec and Laura keep arriving nowhere going nowhere. There is also no hope that the pieces of the affair will fit with the other pieces of their lives. ” So their love has to be “enclosed,” walled off from everything else, “clean and untouched” [Coward 1935, p. 30]. Everyday values apply with full force everywhere else, but, to admit them into this enclave would be like using a yardstick to take a person’s weight. 14 Stephen Pollard “This is different—something lovely and strange and desperately difficult.
When there were not that many data around, researchers had to make sure that the figures they bothered to collect were as exact as possible. Tapping vastly more data means that we can now allow some inaccuracies to slip in (provided the data set is not completely incorrect), in return for benefiting from the insights that a massive body of data provides. Consider language translation. It might seem obvious that computers would translate well, since they can store lots of information and retrieve it quickly.
But with a billion searches a day, it would have been impossible for a person to guess which ones might work best and test only those. Moreover, the data were imperfect. Since the data were never intended to be used in this way, misspellings and incomplete phrases were common. But the sheer size of the data set more than compensated for its messiness. The result, of course, was simply a correlation. It said nothing about the reasons why someone performed any particular search. Was it because the person felt ill, or heard sneezing in the next cubicle, or felt anxious after reading the news?