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  • Abelard castrated
  • Byzantine wife saves husband
  • Amphitryon & Geta duped
  • Chastelaine de Vergi tragedy
  • Aristotle’s advice to Alexander
  • Empress Theodora: woman leader
  • Tristan & Isuet
  • Xanthippe & Socrates
  • New Modern Sexism Scale

data

building a data search engine

A good search engine for data would make the web more enlightening. Lack of a good business model may be keeping users in data darkness. … Read the post building a data search engine

beware of statistical designs

Misleading statistics on the declining farm share have supported agricultural subsidies. Beware of tendentious use of statistics. … Read the post beware of statistical designs

why SEC filings don't contain semantic, queryable data

SEC filings don’t contain semantic, queryable data because companies aren’t interested in making their financial data readily available as such data. … Read the post why SEC filings don't contain semantic, queryable data

making data more factually important

Data accessibility requires both data production and data access. Discursive norms help to provide good incentives. … Read the post making data more factually important

badly structured tables have a bright future

Which is a better, one big table, or two or more smaller tables?  The organization of the data sources, the number of smaller tables, the extent of the relationships between the smaller tables, and economies in table processing all affect the balance of advantage.  But cheaper storage, cheaper computing power, and fancier data tools probably … Continue reading badly structured tables have a bright future

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