big data
The Black Box Society: The Secret Algorithms That Control Money and Information
Interview with Frank Pasquale, who serves on the Council on “Big Data, Ethics, and Society”, about his forthcoming book “The Black Box Society: The Secret Algorithms That Control Money and Information”.
Data analytics firms make a serious play for telematics
The rise of telematics in the insurance industry has data analytics vendors’ tongues wagging, Sooraj Shah investigates
Privacy, Anonymity, and Big Data in the Social Sciences
A recent article suggests that open science may be irreconcilable with anonymous data, requiring a reconsideration of how we protect privacy in educational data.
data art…and experiments in self-tracking
Laurie Frick is a data artist exploring patterns of self-tracking….sensors, surveillance, what will it all mean? Using her background in engineering and high-technology she offers a glimpse into the future of human data portraits physically made and handbuilt as intelligent wallpaper. And is about to launch FRICKbits, a free iphone app that uses an algorithm to make art from your data.
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