In a recent GQ magazine article, Way to Win co-founder Tory Gavito and DFP co-founder Sean McElwee presented compelling new evidence on the question of whether Democrats should persuade swing voters or galvanize their base to have the best chances of retaking the White House. CONT. Alexander Agadjanian, Data for […] Read more »
The Privacy Project: Do You Know What You’ve Given Up?
We’ve all been making some big choices, consciously or not, as advancing technology has transformed the real and virtual worlds. That phone in your pocket, the surveillance camera on the corner: You’ve traded away a bit of anonymity, of autonomy, for the usefulness of one, the protection of the other. […] Read more »
Is More Knowledge Making Us Less Reasonable?
… “Calling Bullshit: Data Reasoning in a Digital World,” designed and co-taught by University of Washington professors Jevin West and Carl Bergstrom, begins with a premise so obvious we barely lend it the attention it deserves: “Our world is saturated with bullshit.” And so, every week for 12 weeks, the […] Read more »
Your phone and TV are tracking you, and political campaigns are listening in
… Welcome to the new frontier of campaign tech — a loosely regulated world in which simply downloading a weather app or game, connecting to Wi-Fi at a coffee shop or powering up a home router can allow a data broker to monitor your movements with ease, then compile the […] Read more »
Your Apps Know Where You Were Last Night, and They’re Not Keeping It Secret
… At least 75 companies receive anonymous, precise location data from apps whose users enable location services to get local news and weather or other information, The Times found. Several of those businesses claim to track up to 200 million mobile devices in the United States — about half those […] Read more »
What Can Google Search Data Tell Us About Human Behavior?
As part of a month-long look at our digital selves, we look at what Google knows that social media does not. Author and data scientist Seth Stephens-Davidowitz has studied years’ worth of Google search data to find insights into human behavior. CONT. Ailsa Chang, NPR Read more »