[kictanet] The Data that turned the world upside down...

[Eric Osiakwan]

....lots of it except it is unstructured hence flies under the radar but startups like Siqueries.com would soon change that metaphor....:-)

Eric here 

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> On May 8, 2017, at 11:43 AM, Ali Hussein via kictanet <kictanet at lists.kictanet.or.ke> wrote:
> 
> Yup
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> Data is the new oil. I wonder how much of this we are using in this year's election.
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> Ali Hussein
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>> On 8 May 2017, at 9:15 PM, Ngigi Waithaka via kictanet <kictanet at lists.kictanet.or.ke> wrote:
>> 
>> Listers,
>> 
>> The other side of big firms is big data...
>> 
>> https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/how-our-likes-helped-trump-win
>> 
>> This is the world we live in.... The excerpt below from the article above helps to put things into perspective...
>> 
>> In 2012, Kosinski proved that on the basis of an average of 68 Facebook "likes" by a user, it was possible to predict their skin color (with 95 percent accuracy), their sexual orientation (88 percent accuracy), and their affiliation to the Democratic or Republican party (85 percent). But it didn't stop there. Intelligence, religious affiliation, as well as alcohol, cigarette and drug use, could all be determined. From the data it was even possible to deduce whether someone's parents were divorced.
>> 
>> Seventy "likes" were enough to outdo what a person's friends knew, 150 what their parents knew, and 300 "likes" what their partner knew.
>> 
>> And guess which other country is a reference for Big Data in politics by the same firm running Trumps Big Data?
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>> https://sclgroup.cc/elections/projects/kenya/
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>> Waithaka Ngigi
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