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Posted on April 20, 2017

Who’ll Really Benefit From Verily’s Exhaustive Health Study?

Who’ll Really Benefit From Verily’s Exhaustive Health Study?
When it comes to big, ambitious science conducted on human beings, you have to ask: Who benefits? Is it you? Other people? Or the people collecting the data? The post Who'll Really Benefit From Verily’s Exhaustive Health Study? appeared first on WIRED.
Posted on March 28, 2017

The Race to Rule the High-Flying Business of Satellite Imagery

The Race to Rule the High-Flying Business of Satellite Imagery
Satellite companies have mountains of data. Some of them analyze in-house, while others sell their data. Who will dominate the new space information economy? The post The Race to Rule the High-Flying Business of Satellite Imagery appeared first on WIRED.
Posted on March 23, 2017

Astronomers Don’t Point This Telescope—The Telescope Points Them

Astronomers Don’t Point This Telescope—The Telescope Points Them
The era of big data astronomy will find stuff astronomers never even knew to look for. The post Astronomers Don't Point This Telescope—The Telescope Points Them appeared first on WIRED.
Posted on February 8, 2017

The US Needs Real Data to Confront Bias in Police Shootings

The US Needs Real Data to Confront Bias in Police Shootings
Researchers learned police were twice as likely to fatally shoot unarmed black civilians. Those findings are terrible—and too hard to come by. The post The US Needs Real Data to Confront Bias in Police Shootings appeared first on WIRED.
Posted on October 4, 2016

A Smarter Way to Compare Birth Control Methods

A Smarter Way to Compare Birth Control Methods
It's easy to find sites listing efficacy rates and side effects, but you rarely get a sense of what it's like to live with a given method of birth control every day. The post A Smarter Way to Compare Birth Control Methods appeared first on WIRED.
Posted on May 20, 2016

Scientists Are Just as Confused About the Ethics of Big-Data Research as You

Scientists Are Just as Confused About the Ethics of Big-Data Research as You
Institutional review boards have long governed research ethics, but do they need to evolve in the digital age? The post Scientists Are Just as Confused About the Ethics of Big-Data Research as You appeared first on WIRED.
Posted on May 6, 2016

Oh, Good Morning, Sleep Science. Welcome to the 21st Century

Oh, Good Morning, Sleep Science. Welcome to the 21st Century
A new study uses a jet lag-hacking smartphone app to collect data from thousands of people around the world. The post Oh, Good Morning, Sleep Science. Welcome to the 21st Century appeared first on WIRED.
Posted on October 12, 2015

The Pitfalls of Using Google Ngram to Study Language

The Pitfalls of Using Google Ngram to Study Language

Garbage in, garbage out when it comes to big data analysis of language and culture.

The post The Pitfalls of Using Google Ngram to Study Language appeared first on WIRED.

Posted on October 1, 2015

What We Can Learn From the Epic Failure of Google Flu Trends

What We Can Learn From the Epic Failure of Google Flu Trends

GFT seemingly presented an eerily accurate projection of the prevalence of the flu, turning the digital refuse of people’s searches into potentially life saving insights.

The post What We Can Learn From the Epic Failure of Google Flu Trends appeared first on WIRED.

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