May 11, 2018
It seems like every other week, we’re addicted to something different. The great Alvin Nathaniel Joiner said back in 1996 that “too much of anything can make you an addict”. In this week’s episode, Sumit and Chris, get knee deep in digits and discuss how data is becoming the fastest growing religion in the world. It’s a numbers game but a lot of us are having a hard time adding it all up. In the last few years, we’ve developed a very unhealthy addiction to data. Big data. Medium data. Small data. We love it. From YouTube views to first-week album sales to how much money is in our bank accounts - we are under the threat of drowning in the flow of too much information. Don’t be a shook one though. Sumit and Chris are here to help you two-step to the algorithm of life. Is data negating the idiosyncrasies of human touch? How do we effectively engage in data warfare? What is all this data really being used for? These are the questions...