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Re:Cohort IDs can be collected over time to create cross-sit... by morelisp on Thursday April 15, 2021 @11:33AM (#26821692)
The number of companies that want to sell to brokers is rapidly increasing though - basically all retail wants to, or spins off a BI division that wants to. They hired all those data scientists, gotta find something for them to do…
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Re:Cohort IDs can be collected over time to create cross-sit... by privacylawthrow on Thursday April 15, 2021 @11:54AM (#26822028)
Data scientists would rather buy data to work with big data sets than sell their own data for money. It's the marketers and people with P&L obligations that usually want to sell.
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