BS: If Big Data is so smart...

Subject: BS: If Big Data is so omniscient...
From: Bee-dubya-ell
Date: 07 Mar 16 - 09:00 AM

...why is it perpetually trying to sell me a Marcedes-Benz? Doesn't it know I have no money?

Subject: RE: BS: If Big Data is so smart...
From: GUEST,#
Date: 07 Mar 16 - 09:14 AM

Grasshopper, never buy golf shoes from a fast food outlet.

Subject: RE: BS: If Big Data is so smart...
From: GUEST
Date: 07 Mar 16 - 10:03 AM

Happy thought: maybe it can predict that you will have.

Subject: RE: BS: If Big Data is so smart...
From: GUEST
Date: 07 Mar 16 - 10:07 AM

E-Z Money Loan Corp. will be getting in touch soon.

Subject: RE: BS: If Big Data is so smart...
From: DMcG
Date: 07 Mar 16 - 10:20 AM

Have you posted any covers of Janis Joplin songs to YouTube?

Subject: RE: BS: If Big Data is so smart...
From: olddude
Date: 07 Mar 16 - 11:44 AM

They keep trying to sell me space in a nursing home..

Subject: RE: BS: If Big Data is so smart...
From: GUEST,saulgoldie
Date: 07 Mar 16 - 12:20 PM

They keep trying to sell me penis enhancement creams even though I am pretty sure I am not running for president.

Saul

Subject: RE: BS: If Big Data is so smart...
From: olddude
Date: 07 Mar 16 - 01:03 PM

Lol better than sports bras I guess

Subject: RE: BS: If Big Data is so smart...
From: Steve Shaw
Date: 07 Mar 16 - 02:15 PM

I'm getting sick of being offered funeral plans.

Subject: RE: BS: If Big Data is so smart...
From: GUEST,coyote breath posing as a guest
Date: 07 Mar 16 - 05:32 PM

I hope you get well soon Steve, Best advice, don't respond to their offers! I hear they send out a couple of goons to see that you need the service!

Subject: RE: BS: If Big Data is so smart...
From: GUEST,Mrr
Date: 07 Mar 16 - 05:52 PM

As long as they keep selling everything to everybody someone will be buying something... sigh.

What was the quote about the American consumer, and when did it become global?

Subject: RE: BS: If Big Data is so smart...
From: Sandra in Sydney
Date: 07 Mar 16 - 06:25 PM

a few months ago my committee's enquiry address was picked up by a spammer in America? - well, most of the emails we get are (allegedly) from American companies or for American consumers (Pet Food Coupons, Costco voucher!!, Walmart bargains! Cheap Canadian meds!!!! - usually they have lots of !!!!'s & often very pretty moving emoticons!!!!)

I do get an occasional giggle when we're offered Beautiful Russian girls, or Sexy Christian Singles, or told that "I think I seen your partner on a dating site" & offered a video ...

the list goes on

sandra

Subject: RE: BS: If Big Data is so smart...
From: GUEST,leeneia
Date: 08 Mar 16 - 12:35 PM

Places Big Data has decided I live:

St Louis MO (350 miles away)
Johnson County KS (10 miles away)
England
Germany

Like gossip, it's intrusive but inaccurate, and sometimes it's way off.

Subject: RE: BS: If Big Data is so smart...
From: GUEST,DrW
Date: 08 Mar 16 - 05:18 PM

I had a wee chuckle when, after ignoring click-bait "women in your area" it started pushing "men in your area" … quite pathetic, really.
cheers
d

Subject: RE: BS: If Big Data is so smart...
From: Steve Shaw
Date: 08 Mar 16 - 05:37 PM

TripAdvisor is absolutely convinced that I live in Bournemouth, a hundred miles from Bude. They keep sending me a list of places in Bournemouth they'd like me to add to my roster of reviews. Well I've never been to Bournemouth. I have no connections there and there is absolutely nothing to link me to the place. But resistance is useless. I've tried so many times to "change my location" on their website, to no avail. The "fact" that I'm "one of the most popular reviewers in Bournemouth" is an endless source of amusement in our house.