Breaking down the data behind your Storm Juno booze and snack deliveries
Nothing but nothing can stop our take-out habits.
On Jan 28, 2015 by Molly McHugh
This dating site wants to ‘predict the future of your love life’
“Matchmaking looks at a couple. Nanaya looks at the couple and everything that romantically affects their lives.”
On Jan 26, 2015 by AJ Dellinger
How Strava sells big data to make cities work better
Big data isn’t always terrifying, even if it usually is.
On Aug 22, 2014 by Taylor Hatmaker
Carnegie Mellon researchers create Big Data tool to predict cyberattacks
It’s like Minority Report for the Web.
On Aug 21, 2014 by Patrick Howell O’Neill
Facebook will only become Big Brother if you let it
The time has come to make a statement.
On Jun 12, 2014 by [email protected]
These companies are fighting for your right to privacy online
If data is the most-coveted resource of our time, we should harvest and mine it sustainably.
On Jun 9, 2014 by [email protected]
How much of your history does Wikipedia track?
Wikipedia’s data retention guidelines come with a loophole that allows them to keep data about you indefinitely.
On May 29, 2014 by Tim Sampson
What analyzing 150 Tinder swipes can tell you
Learn your Tinder stats. Know your Tinder stats. Love your Tinder stats.
On May 12, 2014 by [email protected]
The story behind these pee-testing surveillance toilets
A ‘thought experiment’ tricked people into thinking their pee was getting monitored by a big data team.
On May 5, 2014 by Kate Knibbs
What you need to know about the White House’s big data report
No, this isn’t about the NSA.
On May 1, 2014 by Andrew Couts
Single? Facebook calculated where you need to move for love
Facebook just made science out of our romantic musings.
On Feb 16, 2014 by Molly McHugh
Twitter is finally figuring out how to turn data into dollars
Twitter is sitting on a goldmine. The gold is all our tweets. And now, the extraction process has begun.
On Feb 12, 2014 by Kate Knibbs
How to create an anonymous alter ego in 6 easy steps
Privacy might be on its deathbed, but making yourself a bit less machine-readable goes a long way to preserving our right to anonymity.
On Jan 21, 2014 by [email protected]
Open Source and the Big Data dilemma
Consumers are forced to choose between proprietary systems that limit their ownership and Open Source alternatives that exploit their data.
On Jan 20, 2014 by L. Rhodes
Inside the Web’s $156 billion invisible industry
No one really knows how the data miners are collecting the mass of information they have on consumers, how much they know, or who’s buying it.
On Dec 19, 2013 by [email protected]
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