The astrological nature of big data
How big of a difference is there between predictive analytics and divining the future? The story of a man killed by police outside the Northwest Detention Center. Excuse me: is this beer local, organic, and salmon-safe? And from a distance, you look like my friend.
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Should we treat data more like a natural resource?
How should we think about big data? Is it ore to be mined? Tar sands to be scrubbed? Or something more like hair, fingernails – even astrological prediction? Anna Lauren Hoffman is an assistant professor at the University of Washington Information School, and wrote an article for Quartz called “The language we use to describe data can also help us fix its problems.”
Northwest Detention Center killing
Saturday morning, a Vashon Island man was shot dead by police outside the Northwest Detention Center in Tacoma. Willem van Spronsen was armed with flares and a rifle, and had set fire to a car outside the center. Lilly Fowler from Crosscut has been following the story, including van Spronsen’s arrest at a protest at the center a year before.
SalmonSafe beer
We’ve reached #PeakSeattle: you can now be certain that your local beer is salmon safe. Reporter Hannah Weinberger has been reporting on the group, called SalmonSafe, for Crosscut.
Astronaut Scott Kelly on 50th anniversary of the moon landing
Fifty years ago, a man landed on the moon. In 2019, is Mars the new frontier? If so, we’ll need to know what happens to the human body in space – and astronaut Scott Kelly has contributed a lot to that knowledge. He holds the American record for number of consecutive days in space, and has spent 520 days total in orbit. His memoir is called Endurance: A Year in Space, a Lifetime of Discovery. Bill Radke spoke to him in 2017.
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Bill Radke
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Bill hosts Week In Review and Words in Review. After starting with KUOW as a University of Washington student in 1985, Bill was KUOW's morning host in the '90s and the creator of past show, Rewind, a news-satire show heard on KUOW and nationwide on NPR. Bill moved away to Southern California to host American Public Media's Weekend America and Marketplace Morning Report and returned to KUOW in 2012.
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