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Can Big Data Increase the Number of Female and Minority Tech Workers?
Say you're a recruiter at a tech company in Silicon Valley, Boston, or New York City, and you need to hire a new engineer quickly. You don't want to hire another white dude (your company employs so many of them already!). Yet all of the potential …
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Big Data Comes to the Office
“Social Physics,” the new book by Alex Pentland, a prominent computer scientist at M.I.T., purports to be about Big Data—the super-hyped (some say over-hyped) detection of statistical patterns in vast data sets. Pentland is a Big Data kind of guy. He …
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Hegarty, Droga Pile On Native, Call Big Data 'Bullshit'
CANNES, FRANCE — The backlash against native advertising formats continued Friday during the Lions Festival here, as one of the ad industry's luminaries — BBH Founder Sir John Hegarty — railed against the dishonesty and lack of transparency …
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