This as-told-to essay is based on a conversation with Chris Mattmann, a 44-year-old data scientist from La Canada Flintridge, California, who previously served as NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory's ...

O'Neil is the author of several data science books, such as Weapons of Math Destruction: How Big Data Increases Inequality and Threatens Democracy.

An information scientist at UC Berkeley ... wild internet from which the data got scraped. When Bamman's team includes public domain books in their tests, the scores get higher — "Alice's ...

This call for quantitative literacy in science and in the real-world deployment of algorithmic data analysis feels even ... less nuanced than the rest of the book. His analysis of the role of ...

“Social Physics,” the new book by Alex Pentland, a prominent computer scientist at M.I.T., purports to be about Big Data—the super-hyped (some say over-hyped) detection of statistical ...