34. Should Big Data Run the Country? | THUNK

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Channel: THUNK · 2014 · Education

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Big data is finding weird correlations in everything, but how would you like it running something like government?

-Links for the Curious-

TED lecture about big data (and curly fries) - https://www.ted.com/talks/jennifer_golbeck_the_curly_fry_conundrum_why_social_media_likes_say_more_than_you_might_think

The paper concerning maximum length of time for police surveillance, as determined by a big data algorithm - http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2320019

The Wall Street Journal points out some odd things discovered by big data - http://online.wsj.com/news/articles/SB10001424052702303369904579423132072969654

There was a bit of a stir when a teenaged girl, who hadn't told anyone about her pregnancy, started receiving baby coupons from the Target shopping algorithm - http://www.forbes.com/sites/kashmirhill/2012/02/16/how-target-figured-out-a-teen-girl-was-pregnant-before-her-father-did/

Predpol's claims to efficacy - http://www.predpol.com/results/

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