Another Word For It Patrick Durusau on Topic Maps and Semantic Diversity

November 23, 2012

d8taplex [UK bicycle theft = terrorism?]

Filed under: Dataset — Patrick Durusau @ 11:27 am

d8taplex

Bills itself as:

Explore over 50 thousand data sets containing over 1 million time series.

But searching at random (there was no description of which 50,000 datasets were in play):

Astronomy – 8 “hits” – All doctorates awarded by field of study.

Chemistry – 22 “hits” – Degrees, students, periodical prices.

Physics – 38 “hits” – Degrees, students, periodical prices, staff.

Automobile accidents – 492 “hits” – What you would expect about road conditions, condition of drivers, etc.

Terrorist attacks – 11 “hits” –

containing document: Crime in England and Wales 2009/10: Supplementary Tables: Nature of burglary, vehicle-related theft, bicycle theft, other household theft, personal and other theft, vandalism and violent crime | data.gov.uk
anchor text: Personal theft

I really don’t equate “bicycle theft” with an act of terrorism. Inconvenient yes, terrorism no.

Unless you are getting money from the U.S. Department of Homeland Security of course. They fund studies of how to hide power transmission stations that are too large and dependent on air cooling to be enclosed.

I guess putting blank spots on maps would only serve to highlight their presence. DHS could ban the manufacture of printed maps. Only allow electronic ones. Which can be distorted to show or conceal whatever the flavor of terrorism is for the week.

It would not take long for the only content of the map to be “You are here.” With no markers as to where “here” might be. But then you are there so look around.

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