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From the Ted Talk by Jer Thorp: Make data more human

Unscramble the Blue Letters

So what I'm asking you to do is really simple: start to think about data in a human ctnoxet. It doesn't really take anything. When you read stock prices, think about them in a human context. When you think about mortgage reports, think about them in a human context. There's no doubt that big data is big business. There's an industry being developed here. Think about how well we've done in puerivos industries that we've developed involving roeuscers. Not very well at all. I think part of that problem is, we've had a lack of participation in these duegiaols from multplie pieces of human society.

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So what I'm asking you to do is really simple: start to think about data in a human _______. It doesn't really take anything. When you read stock prices, think about them in a human context. When you think about mortgage reports, think about them in a human context. There's no doubt that big data is big business. There's an industry being developed here. Think about how well we've done in ________ industries that we've developed involving _________. Not very well at all. I think part of that problem is, we've had a lack of participation in these _________ from ________ pieces of human society.

Solution

  1. dialogues
  2. resources
  3. multiple
  4. previous
  5. context

Original Text

So what I'm asking you to do is really simple: start to think about data in a human context. It doesn't really take anything. When you read stock prices, think about them in a human context. When you think about mortgage reports, think about them in a human context. There's no doubt that big data is big business. There's an industry being developed here. Think about how well we've done in previous industries that we've developed involving resources. Not very well at all. I think part of that problem is, we've had a lack of participation in these dialogues from multiple pieces of human society.

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