[LINK] Big Data - bad or otherwise

[Bernard Robertson-Dunn]

On 15/01/2014 2:13 PM, Jan Whitaker wrote:
> [waves at NSA because I used their TLA in this]

If the NSA did follow up all uses of NSA, they'd have to trawl through 
those many emails and SMS from people using NSA to mean No Strings Attached.

Or:
Notary Signing Agent
National Scrabble Association
National Student Association
National Steeplechase Association
National Sound Archive
Nikkei Stock Average
National Shipping Authority
National School of Administration (China)
etc.

There are 127 listed at http://www.acronymfinder.com/NSA.html

And then there's all those seNSAtional words which would give rise to 
many traNSActions.

The trouble with data is that you often don't know what they mean, what 
they used to mean, what they might mean and what they were intended to mean.

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brd

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