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After the 9/11 attacks, “Why do they hate us?” was the constant question. Yet Bin Laden’s motives were neither unknowable nor obscure. September 11 was, in large part, retaliation against the United States for its empire of bases.
How to Hide an Empire
Daniel Immerwahr
But a great deal of data production—what makes data about people useful, valuable, and also harmful—has to do with data’s capacity not only to reveal facts specific to the data subject, but also to reveal facts (or inferences) about others that share features with the data subject. In other words, data is not primarily about individuals, even if it’s extracted from them. Instead data is as much about how a given individual relates to others (interpersonally, geographically, genetically, analogically) as it is about the data subject from which it is collected.
Data Governance for a Society of Equals
lpeproject.org
Each observation in our height and weight data set has a residual, which is its vertical distance from the regression line, except for those observations that lie directly on the line, for which the residual equals zero.
Naked Statistics Stripping the Dread From the Data
Wheelan, Charles
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