Nathan Yau

An exploration of how we use analysis and visualization to understand data and ourselves.

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Anonymized data is rarely anonymous

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Justin Sherman for Wired points out the farce that is anonymized data: Data on hundreds of millions of Americans’ races, genders, ethnicities, religions, sexual orientations, political beliefs, int…