data epistemology

It has been a necessary evil to create data "buckets," typically to accummulate totals or other derived data that can be thought o...

There are some deep difficulties in blending data across healthcare functional and institutional boundaries. There are dozens of different r...

Owl or Parrot? We originally and perhaps still think of our systems as environments that parrot back what we tell them. Indeed, this may be ...

One important fact to keep in mind is that, as we push computer-based knowledge forward, we are at risk of encountering "limits." ...

The subject of this blog is epistemology as it applies to computer-centric data. Computer data epistemology is not identical to "real-w...

Without "data," computer systems are merely calculators. We cannot exploit information technology (IT) without supplying relevant,...