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What is the rate at which data has been increasing in the world for the last three decades?
What is the rate at which data has been increasing in the world for the last three decades?
- 5 times every two years
- 10 times every two years (correct)
- 15 times every two years
- 20 times every two years
What is the consequence of the rapid increase in information?
What is the consequence of the rapid increase in information?
- The present moment is less significant than the recent past
- The present moment looms far larger than even the recent past (correct)
- The present and recent past are equally significant
- The recent past is more significant than the present moment
What is the problem with big data?
What is the problem with big data?
- It overlooks history (correct)
- It focuses too much on history
- It is biased towards the future
- It is biased towards the past
Why are short-term analyses invalid and misleading?
Why are short-term analyses invalid and misleading?
What is the bias towards the present engrained in?
What is the bias towards the present engrained in?
What is the challenge in dealing with big data?
What is the challenge in dealing with big data?
What is "intelligent forgetting"?
What is "intelligent forgetting"?
What is the limiting factor when dealing with big data?
What is the limiting factor when dealing with big data?
Why is it important to choose what not to know?
Why is it important to choose what not to know?
Why does time become more important in softer sciences?
Why does time become more important in softer sciences?
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Study Notes
- The amount of data in the world has increased by about 10 times every two years for the last three decades.
- Such a rate of information increase means the present moment looms far larger than even the recent past.
- Big data tends to overlook history, leading to short-sightedness and recency bias.
- Short-term analyses are invalid and misleading.
- The bias towards the present is engrained in most technology surrounding us.
- The challenge is to determine what is worth preserving and what to cull in the name of knowledge.
- "Intelligent forgetting" is needed to keep the larger continuities in view.
- Time is a limiting factor, as there is no more available attention, board members, or hours in the day.
- What you choose not to know matters just as much as what you do in an era of bigger and bigger data.
- The softer the science, the more important time itself becomes as a filter.
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