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Calling Bullshit In the Age of Big Data

Education — In age of fake news, a course on calling out scientific crap [News, Education, Tech]
Educationmediaest. 2017
— Unverified
Verdict from HTTP liveness real
last probed Aug 24, 2026
Pulse 11.4 · 2/4
11.4
Pulse Index
2/4 families · real
-22.4
30-day Δ
pulse momentum · real
18
HTTP probes
liveness history · real
3
Functional tags
observed attributes · real
Risk read derived from observed signals

Liveness is unverified — no conclusive probe observation exists for the recorded URL. Pulse momentum is negative over 30 days (-22.4) — observed activity is receding.

HTTP liveness

real
18 probes · Jun 16, 2026Aug 24, 2026aliveredirecteddeadunverified

Signal telemetry

4 families · 2 observed · observed only
Liveness probereal
alive in 72% of 18 probesavg response 5819 ms
Developer tractionchecked · none
No public repository linked — GitHub signals are not tracked for this product.
Press & sentimentchecked · none
No coverage found in the tracked press corpus. Absence of press is itself a signal at this stage.
Web footprintreal
resolved host
edge
direct origin
server
not reported
Tranco rank
#1,077,004
Domain age & certificate data not yet collected

Analyst read

generated from the observed metrics above · no external narrative

Calling Bullshit In the Age of Big Data's site could not be verifiably probed when we last probed it on Aug 24, 2026, so its status is unverified — we do not guess. Its Pulse Index is 11.4 of 100, built from 2 of 4 observed signal families. Observed footprint: 3 functional tags. It has no curated competitive-alternative edges yet, so the comparable set below is functional tag-similarity — read it with the confidence flags.

Comparable set

curated alternatives → functional tag-similarity
CompanyBasisOverlapPulse30d ΔStatus
SSC CHSL Last Minute Tipseducationsimilar100%40.00.0● live
OfferLandeducationsimilar100%40.00.0● live
Newsmarteducationsimilar100%8.00.0— unverified
MOOC Hunteducationsimilar100%— unverified
Meanwhile In the Future - Forcing the Handeducationsimilar100%40.00.0● live
Learner's Kiteducationsimilar100%40.00.0● live
CODE2040educationsimilar100%43.30.0● live
Economic recovery after COVID-19 crisiseducationsimilar100%40.0+9.6● live

Confidence reflects source and category coherence: curated = an editorially linked alternative; similar = strong functional tag-overlap in the same category; tag-overlap = shared tags only and may be noisy. Overlap is the shared functional-tag ratio (Jaccard) for tag-matched rows. Pulse is the observed-activity index real and 30d Δ its signed month change; a dash means insufficient observed history, never zero.

Structure

observed attributes
Business modelmedia
Liveness tierquiet
Competitive alternativesnone linked
Open sourceNo
Public APINo
Free tierNo
Enterprise tierNo

Funding & team

not in source

No disclosed funding in our sources. Funding data covers only ~1% of the corpus (462 rounds across 79K products), so absence here is unknown, not zero— we don't estimate a number we can't source.

RAW TELEMETRY last 14 probes
PROBEDHTTPORIGIN → RESOLVEDSERVERMSVERDICT
2026-08-24 14:04Z10001timeout
2026-08-17 13:46Z10003timeout
2026-08-10 00:11Z200callingbullshit.orgApache6487alive
2026-08-08 04:45Z10024timeout
2026-07-31 15:43Z10004timeout
2026-07-26 17:37Z200callingbullshit.orgApache6523alive
2026-07-18 14:21Z200callingbullshit.orgApache6632alive
2026-07-14 09:12Z10007timeout
2026-07-04 16:16Z200callingbullshit.orgApache2306alive
2026-07-03 00:54Z200callingbullshit.orgApache1779alive
2026-06-24 13:51Z200callingbullshit.orgApache2412alive
2026-06-23 13:02Z200callingbullshit.orgApache1692alive
2026-06-21 21:21Z200callingbullshit.orgApache1782alive
2026-06-20 19:27Z200callingbullshit.orgApache1809alive
Full redirect chains, response headers, and DNS records are not captured by the current probe.
Launch Sentinel tear sheet · Calling Bullshit In the Age of Big Data · as of 2026-08-28 · launchsentinel.com/reports/calling-bullshit-in-the-age-of-big-data · liveness, pulse and press figures are observed data with provenance shown per panel.