Data Will Help Us / A manifesto on the promises and perils of so-called ‘Big Data’ — commissioned by The New York Times / / Data work · 2013
Data Will Help Us is a brief manifesto about the promise and perils of data — commissioned by The New York Times.
“Big Data” has become a kind of ubiquitous modern salve that now gets applied to almost any kind of ailment. In fields ranging from education, to government, to healthcare, to advertising, to dating, to science, to war, we’re abandoning timeless decision-making tools like morality, wisdom, and experience for a new kind of logic which simply says: “show me the data.” This piece explores the positive and negative aspects of such data-based logic.
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