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The Dark Data Project helps organizations uncover, deobfuscate, semantify and analyze problematic datasets #darkdata

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"Many organisms important to human health... haven't even been named, let alone studied," reports Ewen Callaway in @nature, citing @nsegata of @CIBIO_UniTrento https://t.co/dYqoM1marg #darkdata

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Current climate data "don’t reflect recent changes such as newer pollution controls, volcanic eruptions or even the effects of Covid," writes @ClimateOfGavin and @hausfath in @nytimes https://t.co/r2HebKen9o #darkdata

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Data on items transiting US ports is ostensibly public, but "it's not free, and it's unusable in the format that it comes in," according to Michael Kanko at @importgenius, interviewed by @aronczyk on @planetmoney https://t.co/7QnTqVlqGq #darkdata

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"Hidden debts accumulate when economies are booming, and are more likely to be exposed when growth slows," reports @TheEconomist, citing @WorldBank (@davidmihalyi), @unidue (@NickolPhilipp) and @nd_econ (@cesarspa1) https://t.co/SKRlRpKDAK #darkdata

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"We cannot calculate with missing data, just as we can't divide by zero,” says Stef van Buuren and reported by @4gravitons in @QuantaMagazine https://t.co/1ymyLFeVlw #darkdata

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As reported in Nature, no bird flu outbreak has been found on Missouri dairy farms, arguably because the state "does not require farmers to test their cows" https://t.co/mp3N0MC1AN #darkdata

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"A common strategy to neutralize a social problem is to make it difficult to know about," write @coopermarianne & @DrMaximVoronov in @sciam. "If we don’t monitor or mention it, then things can feel back to normal." https://t.co/QSj88eXQqH #darkdata

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Most data breaches don't result from zero-days or Ocean's Eleven-style heists

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"Data on mine production, waste, pollution and consumption of water and energy are widely lacking," which can obscure illegal extraction, writes @victor_maus & Tim Werner in @Nature https://t.co/yzJBsjizfz #darkdata

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Uncounted vertically migrating fish may play "an important role in stabilizing the climate" writes @MoiraDonovan in @WIRED https://t.co/eW4HIDBLXW #darkdata

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Since 1990, FEMA "no longer publishes countrywide assessments of risks from nuclear attacks," thereby underappreciating alarming impacts of fallout, writes @seb6philippe in @sciam https://t.co/MGtba8bCkf #darkdata

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@SeverineAR @nickturse @theintercept Breaches of third party data, particularly that of vulnerable populations in conflict and refugee contexts, remain a risk because organizations fail to appreciate the unique challenges of anthroencryption https://t.co/YrQ2hEvdGK

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Today in our #IAC23 retro posts we are highlighting #IAC speaker @timothyquinn founder of @darkdataproject 🎉

👉 Listen to his IAC23 talk: https://t.co/1GehscY9zU
📖 Dive deeper here: https://t.co/qh66iLDguT
🌐 Learn more about Dark Data Project: https://t.co/4bgtUppp4u

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If you missed our IAC talk earlier this month about non-user experiences, you can still read or download the white paper at https://t.co/pFmSCIqWGn #darkdata #ux #uxdesign #ia

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2B people have no birth certificates & 30M deaths go unrecorded every year, resulting in (a) lack of access to services, (b) uninformed health policies, (c) identity fraud, writes @JInterlandi in @nytimes https://t.co/FfwD6RIYkO #darkdata

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Make everything as simple as possible, but not simpler. Happy birthday, @AlbertEinstein. #PhotosWithAlbert

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Our data-rich world is increasingly populated by individuals whose needs we can't infer, explains @darkdataproject's @timothyquinn at @theiaconf on 1-Apr-2023 in New Orleans https://t.co/opO08z63nj #IAC #darkdata