#darkdata — Public Fediverse posts

"Because the supply chain is opaque... [companies] are unlikely to know the precise origins of the lead they use," writes Peter S Goodman, Will Fitzgibbon and Samuel Granados in @newyorktimes https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2025/11/18/world/africa/lead-poisoning-car-battery.html #darkdata

"Many organisms important to human health... haven't even been named, let alone studied," reports Ewen Callaway in @nature.com, citing Nicola Segata at University of Trento https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-025-00038-x #darkdata

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 @newyorktimes https://www.nytimes.com/2024/11/13/opinion/climate-change-heat-planet.html #darkdata

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 Amanda Aronczyk on Planet Money https://www.npr.org/2024/10/11/1210938268 #darkdata

"Hidden debts accumulate when economies are booming, and are more likely to be exposed when growth slows," reports the Economist, citing the World Bank, the University of Duisburg-Essen and the University of Notre Dame https://www.economist.com/finance-and-economics/2024/10/03/a-tonne-of-public-debt-is-never-made-public #darkdata

"We cannot calculate with missing data, just as we can't divide by zero,” says Stef van Buuren and reported by Matt von Hippel in @quantarss https://www.quantamagazine.org/when-data-is-missing-scientists-guess-then-guess-again-20241002 #darkdata

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://www.unmc.edu/healthsecurity/transmission/2024/09/24/is-bird-flu-spreading-among-people-data-gaps-leave-researchers-in-the-dark #darkdata

"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://www.scientificamerican.com/article/weve-hit-peak-denial-heres-why-we-cant-turn-away-from-reality #darkdata @laurahelmuth

"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://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-023-04090-3 #darkdata

Uncounted vertically migrating fish may play an important role in stabilizing the climate, writes @moiradonovan in @WIRED https://www.wired.com/story/all-the-fish-we-cannot-see #darkdata

Since 1990, FEMA "no longer publishes countrywide assessments of risks from nuclear attacks," thereby underappreciating alarming impacts of fallout, writes Sébastien Philippe in Scientific American https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/who-would-take-the-brunt-of-an-attack-on-u-s-nuclear-missile-silos #darkdata @ChristiansenJen

#SymLink: The podcast episode explores the challenges and strategies associated with managing dark data in edge computing environments, highlighting the importance of intentional data management, observability solutions, and collaboration among various stakeholders. It also examines the potential role of AI in improving data hygiene and emphasizes the need for human-driven @GestaltIT @sfoskett
https://gestaltit.com/utilizing-tech/stephen/dark-data-at-the-edge-utilizing-tech-05x13/
#DarkData #Edge #EdgeComputing #EdgeSecurity #UtilizingEdge

Just Posted: The podcast episode discusses the challenges and solutions related to dark data in edge computing, emphasizing the importance of IT-business alignment, observability solutions, data analytics, and human-driven data cleaning for better data management. #UtilizingTechPodcast #DarkData #EdgeComputing #DataManagement
https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/utilizingtech/episodes/05x13--Dark-Data-at-the-Edge-e27a65a

Wäre das Internet ein Land 🌍, läge es beim #Stromverbrauch auf Platz 6. Was können Unternehmen tun, um digitale Emissionen zu reduzieren❓ Effiziente Geräte, erneuerbare Energien einsetzen, #Datenzentren optimieren. #DarkData

Mehr dazu jetzt im Blog!

https://blog.gls.de/digitalisierung/dark-data-versteckte-umweltauswirkungen-der-digitalisierung/

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

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 Jeneen Interlandi in @nytimes https://www.nytimes.com/2023/03/29/magazine/birth-death-tally.html #darkdata

Our data-rich world is increasingly populated by individuals whose needs we can't infer, explains @darkdataproject's @timothyquinn at #IAC 2023 on 1-Apr-2023 in New Orleans https://www.theiaconference.com/iac23-program/#sat-01 #darkdata

hello my fellow #sustainability and #data friends...

Looking for resources that highlight the impact of #darkdata on sustainability, including (but not limited to): #emissions, #consumption (resources, etc.), and, if there is any hard data on this, local #community impact of this as well (#jobs, #healthcare, etc.)

Simply no legitimate reason in a democracy "for people to have secret bank accounts or own property secretly or own companies secretly," @anneapplebaum tells #JonStewart on #TheProblem podcast: https://www.theproblem.com/podcast/anne-applebaum-democracy-fascism #darkdata

Average annual temperature can be a misleading indicator of global warming's impact, reports @AP. The frequency and magnitude of extreme weather events are a more impactful measure. https://www.cbc.ca/news/science/nasa-noaa-2022-warmest-year-1.6711845 #darkdata

New digital zine of semester’s student work from my #DarkData course dropped today. Check it out. Animation by @Scr3wtape
💾https://mfadt.parsons.edu/darkdata/fall2022/

So pleased to share the digital zine produced by students enrolled in my #DarkData course this semester. This student-produced publication features articles, essays, projects, interviews, and animation on topics derived from our course discussions.
:crt_test_pattern: https://mfadt.parsons.edu/darkdata/fall2022/

Echoing our work with the Biological Survey of Canada to measure Canadian biodiversity, @brookejarvis writes in @Wired that "[dark taxa] is a force that humans generally don’t see or understand but that has a profound effect on how our natural cosmos works" https://wired.com/story/big-fight-small-wasps-taxonomy-biodiversity #darkdata
@rdmpage

"Dark Data" is a term I encountered a few years ago, that refers to the data residing in an enterprise which, once captured, is not used.

Prukalpa provides an excellent introduction.

#darkdata #DataEngineering

https://metadataweekly.substack.com/p/the-dark-underbelly-of-your-data

Hey #fediverse

If you're working on Dark Data and Sustainability, send me a message. I'm looking for some background information to inform a whitepaper from the Responsible Computing Consortium.

#DarkData #Sustainability #Data #Systems #Ecosystems #Research

“ #DarkData is killing the planet – we need digital #decarbonisation ” 🔥

« More than half of the digital #data firms generate is collected, processed and stored for single-use purposes. Often, it is never re-used. This could be your multiple near-identical images held on Google Photos or iCloud, a business’s outdated spreadsheets that will never be used again, or data from internet of things sensors that have no purpose. »

› https://theconversation.com/dark-data-is-killing-the-planet-we-need-digital-decarbonisation-190423

#GoodRead #Energy #SurveillanceCapitalism