{"id":11619,"date":"2020-08-23T08:04:33","date_gmt":"2020-08-23T12:04:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.predictiveanalyticsworld.com\/machinelearningtimes\/?p=11619"},"modified":"2020-08-23T08:04:33","modified_gmt":"2020-08-23T12:04:33","slug":"how-not-to-know-ourselves","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.predictiveanalyticsworld.com\/machinelearningtimes\/how-not-to-know-ourselves\/11619\/","title":{"rendered":"How Not to Know Ourselves"},"content":{"rendered":"Originally published in Medium, July 29, 2020. Platform data do not provide a direct window into human behavior. Rather, they are direct records of how we behave under platforms\u2019 influence. Surfing a wave of societal awe and excitement about \u201cBig Data,\u201d platforms formed a habit of releasing \u201cdata science\u201d insights on what we search, like, express, purchase, obsess over, attempt to hide, and prefer to forget. These colorful graphics and juicy taglines \u2014 most notably from OKCupid and PornHub, whose data lay claims to the quirks and desires of our intimate lives \u2014 are always popular novelties to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.predictiveanalyticsworld.com\/machinelearningtimes\/how-not-to-know-ourselves\/11619\/\" class=\"more-link\">(more&hellip;)<\/a>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Originally published in Medium, July 29, 2020. Platform data do not provide a direct window into human behavior. Rather, they are direct records of how we behave under platforms\u2019 influence. Surfing a wave of societal awe and excitement about \u201cBig Data,\u201d platforms formed a habit of releasing \u201cdata science\u201d insights on what we search, like, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":72,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[11,48],"tags":[230,791,243,8,817],"class_list":["post-11619","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-industry-news","category-left-hand","tag-data-analytics","tag-deep-learning","tag-machine-learning","tag-predictive-analytics","tag-social-data"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.predictiveanalyticsworld.com\/machinelearningtimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11619","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.predictiveanalyticsworld.com\/machinelearningtimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.predictiveanalyticsworld.com\/machinelearningtimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.predictiveanalyticsworld.com\/machinelearningtimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/72"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.predictiveanalyticsworld.com\/machinelearningtimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11619"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.predictiveanalyticsworld.com\/machinelearningtimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11619\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11620,"href":"https:\/\/www.predictiveanalyticsworld.com\/machinelearningtimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11619\/revisions\/11620"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.predictiveanalyticsworld.com\/machinelearningtimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11619"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.predictiveanalyticsworld.com\/machinelearningtimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11619"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.predictiveanalyticsworld.com\/machinelearningtimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11619"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}