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Big Data Can Improve the Health of the World’s Most Vulnerable: Mothers and Children

By Dr. Naveen Rao

Is Big Data Finally Changing Health Care?

By Alexandra Sifferlin

Big Data May Be The Secret To Love

By The Aspen Institute

The Dark Side of Cheap Eats

By The Aspen Institute
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How Studying Data Helped Me Get Over My Divorce

Sometimes, the best remedy is a spreadsheet

By Chris Wilson

Wearables Can Tell When You’re Getting Sick

They helped one researcher predict his own illness

By Alexandra Sifferlin

Voter Polls Don't Necessarily Reveal the Truth

Using Big Data to analyze voter preferences has its limits

By Martin Lindstrom

There’s a New Way to Find the Perfect Doctor For You

Want to find a doctor who's performed the most tonsillectomies? There’s an app for that

By Alice Park

When Big Data Is Bad Data

These are today's best ideas

By The Aspen Institute

How Apple’s New Health App Could Be Used — or Abused

"There are some things you can't figure out by someone tapping into an iPhone”

By Markham Heid

Five Best Ideas of the Day: February 11

1. Syria’s own ‘Monuments Men’ are trying to stop antiquities from becoming looted to finance terrorism.By Joe Parkinson, Ayla Albayrak and Duncan Mavin in the Wall Street Journal2. Scientists have combined a bionic leaf with...

By The Aspen Institute

Colleges Track Student Data to Predict Grades

Data algorithms cover millions of grades from thousands of students

By Jon Marcus/Dallas

Five Best Ideas of the Day: October 7

1. Learning from our mistakes: Global response to the current Ebola crisis should improve our handling of the next outbreak.By Lena H. Sun, Brady Dennis, Lenny Bernstein, Joel Achenbach in the Washington Post2. A blueprint...

By The Aspen Institute

Will We Have Any Privacy After the Big Data Revolution?

Corporations know more about their customer’s lives than ever before. But the information economy doesn't have to leave us exposed

By Zócalo Public Square

9 Ugly Lessons About Sex from Big Data

Christian Rudder, author of Dataclysm and a founder of OkCupid, dives into the numbers and surfaces with some revelations on love, sex, race and culture

By Jack Linshi

Five Best Ideas of the Day: August 4

1. Making the punishment fit the crime: A better way of calculating fines for the bad acts of big banks.By Cathy O’Neill in Mathbabe2. Lessons we can share: How three African countries made incredible progress...

By The Aspen Institute

Meet the Man Who Turned NYC Into His Own Lab

Using big data to make a difference

By Sam Frizell

From Selfie to Tweep, This Year’s New Dictionary Words

Merriam-Webster has revealed 150 new words that will be added to its collegiate dictionary this year, ranging from 'hashtag' and 'catfish' to 'dubstep' and 'crowdfunding,' most of which speak to some intersection of pop culture, technology and the Internet

By Katy Steinmetz

My Experiment Opting Out of Big Data Made Me Look Like a Criminal

Here's what happened when I tried to hide my pregnancy from the Internet and marketing companies

By Janet Vertesi

9 Terrifying Digital Threats Lurking in the Shadows

This post is in partnership with Fortune, which offers the latest business and finance news. Read the article below originally published at Fortune.com.It’s that time of year again: Spring is in the air, Monarch butterflies...

By Michal Lev-Ram
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