Misinformation Lessons from Pizza Glue and Eating Rocks: A Beginning

Recently the data community and the media have been buzzing about Generative AI and in particular Google’s AI Overview responses to questions like ‘How many rocks should I eat?’ or ‘How to glue cheese to your pizza?’ These answers of course are silly and the memes have been fun to read, however, there is a … Continue reading Misinformation Lessons from Pizza Glue and Eating Rocks: A Beginning

Data Duped: Your Superpower against Misinformation

Data Duped book helps people make better decisions and avoid misinformation

With the launch of Data Duped: How to Avoid Being Hoodwinked by Misinformation, that I co-wrote with Jeffrey D. Camm, we hope we are bringing curious readers closer to understanding data.  Not just the math and statistics, but also provide some insights into how data is used in many of our everyday interactions. For example, that not-so-random advertising you … Continue reading Data Duped: Your Superpower against Misinformation

What a Data Scientist Really Needs to Learn: Nothing

Raise your hand if you are a data scientist and you have used ChatGPT to help you write your code or maybe generate a photo like the one above. Exactly what I thought. Many have discovered the usefulness of ChatGPT to not only write thank you notes but to also write code. And this is just the beginning. Recently … Continue reading What a Data Scientist Really Needs to Learn: Nothing

What ChatGPT Tells Us About Misinformation: The Black Mirror Effect

Since the introduction of ChatGPT3 last November and its protégé ChatGPT4 last month, there has been frenzied anticipation about how this form of AI will transform all of us in nearly unimaginable ways. While ChatGPT has been impressive in its capability it has also demonstrated the limits of its knowledge by providing incorrect or misleading … Continue reading What ChatGPT Tells Us About Misinformation: The Black Mirror Effect