#jesse gilbert

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Epsilon Eridani and When You're Older (J Dilla cover) by The Miguel Atwood-Ferguson Ensemble, live at The Blue Whale, 2014

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Death Star by The Miguel Atwood-Ferguson Ensemble, live at The Blue Whale in Los Angeles, CA.

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‘The Secret Life of Data’ (SLD) explores the increasing use of data in our day to day life and what the long term implications of this could be for our society. 

The book begins with a brief history of data, then explores the ways data is being collected and used today. This includes the role data plays as an enabler of artificial intelligence (AI) and the various data that is output by AI - such as algorithmic driven decision and insights or generative AI content.  

A focus of the book is the ways in which data, though collected for one purpose, can go on to be used for purposes the original user or collector never anticipated or intended. This is the ‘secret life of data’. Sometimes these are innocuous or even beneficial uses. But many of the examples provided - such as the Cambridge Analytica scandal - raise serious ethical questions about the extent of corporate and government algorithmic surveillance.

The book's content is accessible to the general reader, while still offering new insights and perspectives to those familiar with data governance and ethics. It’s therefore a book I'd recommend for anyone who wants to better understand the opportunities and risks associated with the accelerating measurement and quantification of our lives.