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An App Saw Trump Winning Swing States When Polls Didn't
The startup Brigade built an app that asks a simple question: Which candidate are you going to vote for? The company’s data pointed to a big crossover effect: Democrats voting [against Clinton and] for Trump in droves. By Aarti Shahani.
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The Physicist Who Sees Crime Networks
A lone Japanese scientist is discovering the shady ties that connect companies engaged in illegal trade. By Mark Harris.
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Four Million Commutes Reveal New U.S. 'Megaregions'
As economic centers grow in size and importance, determining their boundaries has become more crucial. Where do you fall on the map?
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They Have, Right Now, Another You
We give our data away. We give it away in drips and drops, not thinking that data brokers will collect it and sell it, let alone that it will be used against us. By Sue Halpern.
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Your private medical data is for sale – and it's driving a business worth billions
Your medical data is for sale – all of it. Adam Tanner, a fellow at Harvard’s institute for quantitative social science and author of a new book on the topic, Our Bodies, Our Data, said that patients generally don’t know that their most personal information – what diseases they test positive for, what surgeries they have had – is the stuff of multibillion-dollar business. But although the data is nominally stripped of personally identifying information, data miners and brokers are working...
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Welcome to News Fake
The best stories from the sources you love, selected just for you. News a̷n̷d̷ ̷P̷r̷i̷v̷a̷c̷y̷. By Jonathan Albright.
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What to do if your data is taken hostage
There are many options you have in how to respond to a ransomware threat. It all depends on your risk appetite.
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Robert Mercer: the big data billionaire waging war on mainstream media
With links to Donald Trump, Steve Bannon and Nigel Farage, the rightwing American computer scientist is at the heart of a multimillion-dollar propaganda network
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How people can kill a data strategy
Getting to an enterprise-wide view of an organization's analytics requires a data-driven culture. Business leaders must be clear about what they want, and enlist the support of every employee to get the job done.
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NYC’s New Tech to Track Every Homeless Person in the City
Think Salesforce, but for homelessness.
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How to Call B.S. on Big Data: A Practical Guide
“Nothing that you will learn in the course of your studies will be of the slightest possible use to you,” the Oxford philosophy professor John Alexander Smith told his students, in 1914, “save only this: if you work hard and intelligently, you should be able to detect when a man is talking rot.”
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Proof that Americans are lying about their sexual desires
What Google searches for porn tell us about ourselves. By Sean Illing with Seth Stephens-Davidowitz.
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Big data certifications with big bucks potential
Investing in big data and other data analytics technologies is clearly a good career bet. But what's the best way to get a job in these fields? Here's what employers are looking for.
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How to squeeze data insights from your SMB
Small and midsize businesses sometimes believe that big data only applies to enterprise-size companies. However, when smaller businesses use the oceans of data around them, they can improve in almost every way.
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Data Chiefs Demand Data Journalism
Top data analytics executives kicked off a data analytics event at MIT with a call for better data storytelling—by using word pros instead of data pros.
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The A.I. “Gaydar” Study and the Real Dangers of Big Data
Alan Burdick discusses a controversial recent study by Michal Kosinski and Yilun Wang that uses facial-recognition technology to identify people’s sexual orientation.
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If data is the new oil, are tech companies robbing us blind?
Data is the new oil, or so the saying goes. So why are we giving it away for nothing more than ostensibly free email, better movie recommendations, and more accurate search results? It’s an important question to ask in a world where the accumulation and scraping of data is worth billions of dollars — and even a money-losing company with enough data about its users can be worth well into the eight-figure region.
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I asked Tinder for my data. It sent me 800 pages of my deepest, darkest secrets
At 9.24pm (and one second) on the night of Wednesday 18 December 2013, from the second arrondissement of Paris, I wrote “Hello!” to my first ever Tinder match. Since that day I’ve fired up the app 920 times and matched with 870 different people. I recall a few of them very well: the ones who either became lovers, friends or terrible first dates. I’ve forgotten all the others. But Tinder has not.
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The microbiome and big data
Analysis of large microbial datasets contributes critical information for health care, epidemiology, agriculture, and biofuels.
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How “Big Data” Went Bust
Sometimes big data doesn’t solve problems—it magnifies them. By Will Oremus.
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