In 2003, an angry man stormed into a Minneapolis-area Target store clutching a handful of advertisement mailers with the store’s distinctive red bullseye logo on them. He demanded to see the manager. When they sat down to talk, the man …
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Analysis of vast amounts of data is proving an enormously powerful tool in understanding and predicting trends in everything from online shopping to healthcare. Some of the insights gleaned from that analysis are surprising and even counter-intuitive, but sometimes they …
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If you spawned at the Lake Base in Valhalla during the Halo 3 beta, you were as good as dead. You could hardly get out onto the digitized field of battle without taking a rocket to the chest or a …
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Cambridge Analytica was a little-known British political consulting firm when it catapulted to prominence in 2016, credited with being part of the digital strategies that resulted in the United Kingdom voting to leave the European Union… and Donald Trump being …
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In the tense opening scene of the Steven Spielberg/Tom Cruise film Minority Report a handful of police officers race desperately to track down a murderer and arrest him… before the actual murder occurs. PreCrime, the name of the unit responsible …
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You’re shopping on Amazon and heading for checkout when you see the note in your shopping cart: “To qualify for FREE Shipping, add $10.91 of eligible items.” And who doesn’t want FREE shipping? You head back to the homepage to …
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Data science is constantly evolving and any data scientist who is trying to keep up with the state of the industry had better be following along with their peers on recent developments. Symposiums and conferences are great for networking and …
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Although you might feel like you have some right to information about yourself, in a legal sense just about any type of data that can be collected about you without invading your personal space is fair game. Online click-through agreements …
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In Thailand on his summer break in January of 2018, Australian university student Nathan Ruser couldn’t quite distract himself completely from his studies. An international security and Middle East studies student at Australian National University in Canberra, Ruser found himself …
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