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Google flu trends: the limits of big data
Google Flu Trends, once a poster child for the power of big-data analysis, seems to be under attack. This month, in a Science magazine article, four quantitatively adept social scientists reported that Google’s flu-tracking service not only wildly overestimated the number of flu cases in the United States in the 2012-13 flu season — a […]
Teen Ink
Northeastern University Young Scholars Program
Six weeks of lectures, computer classes, college campus, field trips, and lab work in the middle of a summer vacation. Sound like the way most juniors in high school spend their summer? Well, that’s the way twenty-five high school juniors and sophomores (and I) spent summer vacation. The program is called Northeastern University’s Young Scholars […]
Seeking cooperation, but also after convictions
On a cold, gloomy day in February of last year, a group of protesters showed up at the U.S. attorney’s office here and demanded to see a prosecutor who had brought a terrorism case against a young Muslim man.