Covid19: Competing purposes of testing

As during the Prohibition where people moved their social gathering from public bars and saloons to their private residences, I think the same thing will happen now.   Social gathering in comparable numbers will resume but they will be in private “speak easy” locations with restricted entry to those who have the right test results instead of knowing the right password.

Customers will demand volume, velocity, and variety

Many of the success stories attributed to data science using big data with it large volume, velocity, and variety share a common theme of being conducted largely unknown to the subjects being explored.    If big data represents a new approach to managing social systems, then this approach has been proven on social systems that…