After spending a couple of days in Biarritz, France, it is interesting to get a little more informed about the time off the occupation during German fascism in Europe. Here’s an interesting report: Not familiar with French? As long as I haven’t translated the text myself, try this Google-translation.
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Data-Industrial Complex
An interesting overview of several contributing factors for the result of the last election of the President of the United States is to be found on the “US Centre’s” blog of the London School of Economics. How Trump’s campaign used the new data-industrial complex to win the election
The data that turned the world upside down
motherboard.vice.com/…/how-our-likes-helped-trump-win An excellent overview about the state of the art Military psy-ops, Facebook data-mining and the possibilities and limits of influencing public opinion. In a way scary stuff, but important be aware about it. The data that turned the world upside down Background Paper on Michal Kosinski, a psychologist specialized in psycho-metrics, his invention of …
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Google and social research
US data scientist Seth Stephens‑Davidowitz on disturbing truth about our hidden desires, beliefs and prejudices by analyzing Google trends: Everybody lies: how Google search reveals our darkest secrets Everybody lies. People lie about how many drinks they had on the way home. They lie about how often they go to the gym, how much those new …