You Can't Use Twitter to Predict Election Results
Twitter may provide useful clues for detecting a spike in influenza, but its users are too different from the population at large for counting votes before they're cast.… More »
Alexander Furnas is a master's candidate at the Oxford Internet Institute.
Twitter may provide useful clues for detecting a spike in influenza, but its users are too different from the population at large for counting votes before they're cast.… More »
A point-by-point examination of whether changes to the CISPA legislation successfully address its flaws.… More »
Chances are, you'll snag the wrong people, and when you do, how can you tell? How do you clear suspects of crimes that haven't happened?… More »
A guide to what data mining, how it works, and why it's important.… More »
People condemn targeted advertising for its "creepiness" but the real issue is that we are giving private companies more power.… More »
A new platform called Madison seeks to bring more voices to the table, but a few design flaws mar the whole effort.… More »
International agreements for regulating intellectual property are a one-way ratchet process: enforcement and protection provisions can go up but never down.… More »
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