Para os fãs do Big Data

"There is no higher praise these days than being data-driven. A person who is data-driven is free of bias, and cuts through arguments with a sword of truth. No longer do we need to fumble through life. The answers will come. We will know how to respond, just what to do. We will let the data tell us!
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as we enter the Age of Big Data, the Age of the Internet, and the like, is that we are also entering an Age of the Axiomatic.
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To be axiomatic, at its best, is to be deductive, but at its worst, it is to assume that a system is consistent and complete.
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Axioms work well in the realm of pure numbers and physics, but they are often superficially applied to biology, and especially so when applied to the social sciences.
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Exactly the point we assume the data of a system to be both consistent and complete. This is when axiomatic logic at its most naïve and dangerous.
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This dangerous kind of axiomatic logic is pronounced when we assume that a user is a collection of “data points” with a consistent or complete identity."

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"“alterity,” or otherness—the possibility of being totally blindsided by new facts, to achieve an experience that was before entirely foreign." 

Trecho retirado de "Love Is Not Algorithmic"