Sorin Adam Matei
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Purdue’s Brian Lamb School of Communication is joining the Google News Lab University to better prepare students for 21st century careers related to digital media. “Purdue’s faculty will utilize the latest data journalism and storytelling innovations for teaching and research as part of…
If the latest trendy phrase in cybersphere, Social Physics, should refer to anything, that should be an emergent social scientific approach to characterizing social systems as if they were particle aggregates, each component unit moving according to laws dictated by their intrinsic…
Big data is seen by many as a panacea, while many are skeptical of its ability to solve our most pressing problems. What is the real problem with big data? Blind empiricism. All…