I must warn that this is a super long post. Also I wonder if I should put this on medium in order to get more footage. Most models of disease spread use what is known as a “SIR” framework. This Numberphile video gives a good primer into this framework. The problem with the framework is…
Restaurants, deliveries and data
Delivery aggregators are moving customer data away from the retailer, who now has less knowledge about his customer. Ever since data collection and analysis became cheap (with cloud-based on-demand web servers and MapReduce), there have been attempts to collect as much data as possible and use it to do better business. I must admit to…