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The Economist’s plan to save the world from populism
When James Wilson founded The Economist in 1843 his aim was to challenge a political and landowning class which was protecting its interests through tariffs on grain that were causing hunger and rioting across Britain. Wilson was a radical. He was a...
AI must overcome ‘zillions of hurdles,’ says guy who wrote the book on big data
For the guy who literally wrote the book on big data and its promise to revolutionize how "we live, work, and think," Kenneth Cukier's view on big data's love child, AI, is far less rosy. Citing "zillions of limitations," Cukier has poured cold water on...
How Will Big Data Change The Way We Live?
What's the future of technology and design that's driven by Big Data? Kenneth Cukier of the Economist looks at what's next for machine learning and human knowledge.
Cyber-attacks and the Great Siege of Dover Castle
Jonathan Freedland compares cyber-attacks today with the Great Siege of Dover Castle in 1216 during which the French used new offensive techniques to try to seize the English throne. In 1216, Prince Louis of France's near-successful bid for the English...
What investors need to know about the shift in data science
This coming week, the largest big data conference, O’Reilly Strata event, will gather close to 10,000 attendees in one of NYC’s largest conference hall – the Javits Center. I had the pleasure of presenting at the very first editions of this show, almost a...
Watched by the Web: Surveillance Is Reborn
Google does it. Amazon does it. Walmart does it. And, as news reports last week made clear, the United States government does it. Does what? Uses “big data” analysis of the swelling flood of data that is being generated and stored about virtually every...
More or Less: Can big data save lives?
In More or Less Ruth Alexander explains - and sometimes debunks - the numbers and statistics used in political debate, the news and everyday life. This week we ask - our everyday lives generate around 2.5 quintillion bytes of data according to IBM. So...
Is data visualisation just style over substance?
The advent of sophisticated computer graphics has encouraged more and more use of data-visualisation - not least by BBC News. The clever means of presenting detailed text or statistical information in a non-conventional manner is developing fast, but some...