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Human Rights

What Data Can Do to Fight Poverty

IF social scientists and policy makers have learned anything about how to help the world’s poorest people, it’s not to trust our intuitions or anecdotal evidenc...

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Sustainable Development

The End of Big Data

Personal data is anything but personal. Our phones and televisions listen in on us; the most powerful corporations in the world trade in consumer tics, browsing histories, ...

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Sustainable Development

Nine Out Of Ten Of The Internet?s Top Websites Are Leaking Your Data

Tim Libert, a privacy researcher with the University of Pennsylvania, has published new peer-reviewed research that sought to quantify all the “privacy compromising m...

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Gender

What Is The Gender Gap In Graduate Earnings?

A new study using big data has confirmed that those who complete university can expect to earn, on average, a decent premium for their degree. This alone won’t come a...

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Sustainable Development

Tech As A Tool Of Social Change

Disruptive technologies like the Internet of Things and Big Data are also expected to continue to expand and become part of our everyday lives, says B.V.R. Mohan Reddy &nbs...

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Health

How To Turn Big Health Data Into Big Health Action

Mobile technology has revolutionized data-collection tools for health workers, but unless that data creates meaningful change, the “data revolution” will strugg...

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Sustainable Development

Can Big Data Based Intelligence Substitute Human Creativity?

Some time ago BBC published an article titled, “Calculated Risks: Will Algorithms Make Business Boring?” In the article, the author related this story: When Net...

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Sustainable Development

The Road To Better Data

When Moses went to Mount Sinai more than 3,000 years ago, he came back with 10 commandments. When the world’s presidents and prime ministers go to New York City in la...

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Health

Stanford hosts inaugural Childx conference this spring

Registration is now open for the first ever Childx conference, a TED-style conference focused on inspiring innovation in pediatric and maternal health. The conference will ...

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Eye Think

How Data Can Improve the Impact of Stories

‘Our ancestors created their myths and told their stories for a human purpose. Any good story, any good novel, should have a message’, wrote Chinua Achebe, the ...

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