#Data Dependence

[chainreactionpodcast]

From Data Dependence to Informed Insight

In the complex realm of supply chain management, understanding biases can be crucial for effective decision-making. In this episode of the Chain Reaction Podcast, we explore the phenomenon of quantitative bias, particularly as highlighted in Linda Chang et.al., insightful paper, “Does Counting Change What Counts?” Quantitative bias encompasses systematic errors in research, particularly in…

[ghurab-alzilal]

Damian: So you're going on a mission with Zatanna to the Middle East, right?

Raven: Yes, we leave tomorrow.

Damian: Well, there are some words you should memorize and use them with anyone you meet, okay? Repeat after me "ladaya sadiq."

Raven: La-dayaaa sa-diq?... Ladaya sadiq. What does it mean?

Damian: That's not the important thing, but don't forget to tell everyone there, you understand? All the lives around you could depend on it.

Raven: I understand, thanks for the advice, see you in a few days.

*The next day somewhere in the Middle East during a fight with some ifrites *

Raven, shouting out : LADAYA SADIQ!!!

An Imamah who went to help them : I'm happy for you but I don't think these demons really care if you have a boyfriend or not.

Raven: That's what it means?!

Imamah: *nods *

Raven, visibly upset : Well trust me, when I get my hands on him I'll stop having one.

[icewindandboringhorror]

indeed my exact process once every 8 months or so

[an-actual-floof]

being attached to Data as a character is wild cuz every episode about him is either so wholesome and about his humanity or it’s like “hmmm how can we further dehumanize him”

[maeamian]

Seen a meme goin' round Al Gore's internets the past few days talking about average income if you exclude the top 1000 or whatever Americans, and its math sucks and is bad and is also wrong. You should not take it as fact just because it's in a meme format, it uses data that simply does not seem to meaningfully exist and to the extent that it does, relies on mixing up means and medians repeatedly and interchangeably.

[kbsd]

am I remembering right that you have a spreadsheet tracking steals?

hi! yes i do! i update it several times a day and check my numbers directly against the mod's very regularly, so you can trust it's as accurate as possible :)

i know @chirpybirdy also has a spreadsheet here; both have mostly the same basic information (ship leaderboards for current rounds, all the steals, etc.) but they're just formatted differently, which i'll explain below the cut ->

chirpy's spreadsheet has a tab for purely the results of the current round, and then that round's steals listed all together on a separate sheet:

whereas i have the steals grouped alongside each matchup result (plus an additional sheet of steals and totals sorted by medium):

(example of round 3 matchups, not the wildcard, just to illustrate the format)

our spreadsheets are formatted so differently because they serve different purposes/we're tracking some different things. chirpy's has a leaderboard for stealers:

whereas i'm keeping a leaderboard of ships' steals and progress across all rounds (this is currently sorted by the wildcard round, but you can sort by whichever column you want), as well as some totals and stats by medium and by show just for fun:

chirpy also has something fun, which is tracking a ship's overall power level which is basically how many steals they've gotten + their total margins of victory in all their polls:

so really you can use either depending on what information you want to find!

[crumblestheclown]

[kbluebirdart]

I think at this point, No matter which platform you go to, you can't escape. Do you think they hire hundreds of programmers and set up hundreds of servers just to provide free services?

Nope! Twitter/X is not the product; the users themselves are the product

We are the product...

You become one as soon as you register and create an account on any social media platform. : (

[star-trekster]

I know the scene in Star Trek: Insurrection where Data, Picard, and Worf sing "A British Tar" is supposed to be a funny comedy moment, but I desperately need to know 1: What role was Data playing in his rehearsal and 2: what version was he rehearsing?

[5mind]

btw Pelago uses plural 'they/them' and plural 'we' since they're p much a symbiotic duo but Lagon themself uses singular 'they/them' , Alicia uses 'she/her'. first person pronoun for both is 'I'.

[astral-veil]

Hello, tell me, please, where did you buy this? That's great!

Hi, its actually mine, i made it!

[orcelito]

Being in a data governance class makes it so weird to watch the shit that tech giants are continuously pulling. I see them mass data scraping for AI training and I'm like. But Wait. What about GDPR??? Hello??? User privacy and right to access/correct/delete??? I know that's an EU thing but other places have their own data protection acts too!!! And they're pulling these moves that communicate such flagrant disrespect and irresponsibility for the handling of user data.

In the IT courses I've taken, they've taught us something that's really stuck with me: "Just because we can doesn't mean we should."

My data governance professor keeps emphasizing that as IT personnel, we will need to have a much higher sense of integrity than most other fields bc we have access to SO MUCH SHIT. IT and tech industries are so under-regulated bc of how relatively new it all is and how slow the law moves. But people in charge of handling user data should keep in mind that this is data about Real People, and capitalizing off of it is a violation of privacy.

But tech giants don't care. They'll keep poking and prodding, trying to capitalize off of users' data in order to earn as much money as they can. Data regulations like GDPR exist, but they don't cover everyone, and tech giants are more of "Do First, ask forgiveness later". Or in this case, pay the fines later. Bc if they violate GDPR, they Will be paying fines. And maybe they'll even change the way they handle the data... for EU citizens.

The rest of us are fucked tho. Tech giants really don't care. They just view us as assets to profit off of.

[thehecklingmouse]

back in the akademiya kaveh holds alhaithams hand or something so alhaitham looks through every book on romance to determine if that means kaveh likes him back.

[arolesbianism]

GUYS.

New dupe real! Also new pod????? Olivia is that you girlie speak to me

[atimeofbeing]

Since I do data visualization as a small part of my job, thought it would be fun to noodle out a silly network visualization of the relationships in Jeongnyeon. I want to make it more complex at some point, but for now this is the simplified version as of episode 9.

Made with cytoscape + affinity designer

[mongeese]

Star Trek rules because if you told me you love the autistic Jewish alien I'd have to ask you which one