Anonymized data is rarely anonymous

flowingdata.com

140 pointsgslin5 comments

That is the format of that blog, in this case it was a bit short I do agree. The problems with anonmizing creeps up quite a bit on Flowingdata

It's also mention regularly in posts not specifically about that.

Yes. I've moved (most) comments moved to https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29735187, which has the original source.

Submitters: "Please submit the original source. If a post reports on something found on another site, submit the latter."

Actually there is no such thing as anonymous data. Data is data, if you change the original data that data is useless.

This is an oversimplification.