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Big Data
September 15, 2015
Paul Ford
Data Helped Me Lose 100 Pounds
But charts and graphs weren't enough to keep it off
August 14, 2015
Paul Ford
Where Does Our Information Go After We Die?
A Twitter conversation with data columnist Paul Ford
August 13, 2015
The New Republic Staff
The Database of the Dead
Are you in it?
August 13, 2015
Paul Ford
The Final File
Exploring the Social Security administration’s list of America’s dead
February 6, 2015
Malcolm Harris
The Moral Hazard of Big Data
Pasquale's 'Black Box Society' takes on the destructive power of money-hungry computation
June 16, 2014
Alex Massie
Nate Silver and His Equations Don't Understand the World Cup
The dubiousness of Big Data's soccer predictions
November 25, 2013
Kathryn Olson
This Map Predicts Where Violence Will Erupt in Afghanistan
August 7, 2013
Leon Wieseltier
No, Science Doesn't Have All the Answers
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March 26, 2013
Leon Wieseltier
What Big Data Will Never Explain

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