Author: chad wellmon
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Why Google Isn’t Making Us Stupid . . . or Smart
LAST YEAR THE ECONOMIST PUBLISHED A special report not on the global financial crisis or the polarization of the American electorate, but on the era of big data. Article after article cited one big number after another to bolster the…
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Big Data, Small Data, and the Ethics of Scale
This past summer, two Cornell University scholars and a researcher from Facebook’s Data Science unit published a paper on what they termed “emotional contagion.” They claimed to show that Facebook’s news feed algorithm, the complex set of instructions that determines what shows up…
Chad Wellmon 