Tag: data
Congress is considering privacy legislation – be afraid
Jeff Sovern, St. John's University
Supreme Court Justice Louis Brandeis called privacy the “right to be let alone.” Perhaps Congress should give states trying to...
Worried about sexual harassment – or false allegations? Our team asked...
Anita Raj, University of California San Diego
Since the launch of #MeToo, there’s been a lot of attention on problems of sexual harassment and assault...
How Uber and other digital platforms could trick us using behavioral...
Abbey Stemler, Indiana University; Joshua E. Perry, Indiana University, and Todd Haugh, Indiana University
Uber’s business model is incredibly simple: It’s a platform that facilitates...
Will Netflix eventually monetize its user data?
Jason Mittell, Middlebury
Even in the wake of a recent mixed earning report and volatile stock prices, Netflix remains the media success story of the...
Many hate crimes never make it into the FBI’s database
Sophie Bjork-James, Vanderbilt University
The FBI’s latest numbers showed a 17 percent increase in reported hate crimes in 2017.
But what does this actually say about...
Nearly all sexual harassment at work goes unreported – and those...
Carly McCann, University of Massachusetts Amherst and Donald T. Tomaskovic-Devey, University of Massachusetts Amherst
The #MeToo and #TimesUp movements have brought renewed attention to workplace...
You make decisions quicker and based on less information than you...
Nadav Klein, University of Chicago
We live in an age of information. In theory, we can learn everything about anyone or anything at the touch...
What big data can tell us about how a book becomes...
Albert-László Barabási, Northeastern University
The average American reads 12 or 13 books a year, but with over 3 million books in print, the choices they...
EXPLORING NATURE
Trump’s EPA decides climate change doesn’t endanger public health – the...
Jonathan Levy, Boston University; Howard Frumkin, University of Washington; Jonathan Patz, University of Wisconsin-Madison, and Vijay Limaye, University of Wisconsin-Madison
