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Occupy Wall Street -Killer Algorithms Credit Agency Analytics

Disturbing News for Consumers With Credit Scoring Adding New Data Analytics–Some of the Same Methodologies Used by Insurers With Flawed/Potential Erroneous Data–One More Reason to Continue Occupying...

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Discrimination by the Algoirthm

I'm a geek but I try to take some complicated issues and bring them as best I can into laymans terms to help share what I know so I hope not to be too confusing.  I just finished Attack of the Killer...

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Occupy Algorithms-The Math That Created the 1% 99% Divide

This is where we have to go as formulas and algorithms were created for profit.  They can be written for both "desired" and "accurate" results and the first is pretty much what we have today.The Occupy...

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The Alternative Millionaire's Tax To Bring Back the Middle Class

If you have read any of my stuff, I tend to be a deep analytics thinker, which is not a bad thing as I try to dig deep to the root of what ails the US where I can.  This is about taxing the big...

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New US Financial Chief - Discrimination by the Algorithms- His Big Task

This is reference to the new White House appointee for the consumer financial protection office and I do hope he knows how corporate USA today is using algorithms and math for profit.  This is a crappy...

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InsureMonkey Site for Monkeys (Us) To Shop For Insurance-No Respect for...

“InsureMonkey” Yet One More Way to Shop for Health Insurance–The Orbitz of the Insurance Market For Shopping RatesThis is from the Medical Quack blog and the point made here has to do with respect for...

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Patient Data that Patients Could Not See Shared with Investors on Wall Street

Accretive Health Debt Collector Employee Has Laptop Stolen With Non Encrypted Patient Data from 2 Hospitals And Had Access to All the Data Via Revenue Cycling - Patient Information Was Shared With Wall...

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Komen Wall Street Shindig Last Week With Hedge Funds

I'm back to speak math and algorithms again, I know I'm boring but folks this what makes all the inequality happen,the root cause.We better hope Richard Cordray goes into the math and formulas as big...

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Komen Reverses Decision With Planned Parenthood–Hard Lessons With Business...

Komen Reverses Decision With Planned Parenthood–Hard Lesson on How Business Analytics Are Misunderstood And/Or Abused–Attack of the Killer Algorithms Chapter 10Here we go again, analytics and ethics...

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Health Insurance Analytics Gone Wild?

I know I write about the same old boring topic but I had a comment from a reader that is worth looking at.  I think this may have to do with the analytics and somehow a mistake here in grouping this...

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The Connection with Digital Illiterate Lawmakers in Wisconsin-No Web Cam...

If this law doesn't prove how digitally illiterate some of our lawmakers are, then I don't know what does.  This is yet one more case for "control" and truly shows that digital illiteracy is a huge...

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New York Subway Worker, Dubbed as a Hero Has Pension Reduced to $5.00...

Here's the next addition to my series on the "Attack of the Killer Algorithms" the force behind the entire  Occupy movement that you can't see, touch or talk to and worse yet find anyone in government...

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Gilead’s CEO Greed - AIDS Foundation Puts Out Press Release

I'm actually glad they did this as my lead in and part of the press release below shows that greed is still alive and well even with cures...The man is on the top 10 highest compensated CEOs at Forbes...

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The Quants - The Alchemists of Wall Street Video Documentary

All I need to say here is watch this if you want to get educated.  This is interesting as you hear from software developers and mathematicians and their ground roots and how it began.  One former...

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Nobel Prize Given for An Algorithm - Where's the Humanism

This is well worth watching and why I try to keep telling all what business models are all about and what they can do....Algo duping society.First of all I do not mean any disrespect here as the...

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Holding Those Responsible Who Profited in the Billions to Fix Flawed...

I have been busy trying to help educate and inform all on what goes on today and what the issues are.  I have my series called the Attack of the Killer Algorithms and if you have not looked, there's...

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Mitch McConnell Duped and Duped Again - It Was On the Internet

You know I saw this and I had to laugh too one one side and on the other end it scares the daylights out of me.  I’m one of those out here with a few others that would just love to “help” educate some...

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E-Scoring and Selling Flawed Data Hurts Consumers

I write about this topic a lot, why?  Because flawed data and data selling has become an epidemic in the US.  It is all not accurate.  E-Scoring gets around the laws as far as giving any consumer any...

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Health Insurance Companies Make Big Dollars Selling Data

United Healthcare probably makes more money selling data out there than most do as it started years ago with Ingenix and they have a a full set of analytics where they sell data.  It started out...

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US Needs To Hire Technologists To Fight Crime

It's been a few weeks back but if you had the opportunity to watch the PBS Frontline report it was a sad state of affairs.  Sadly and no disrespect here but I can't figure out for the life of me why we...

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