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Category: Big Data For Development

        • 02/16/2013
          Forget about roots and embrace the webs: What complexity means for our traditional views on causality

          Our tools for identifying cause-and-effect in the world are matched by a particular view of how causality works. Ideas from complexity theory are forcing us to update our views on causality, so our tools must be updated as well.
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        • 02/13/2013
          A few links on Big Data for Development
          The idea of Big Data for Development (or “BD4D” — you saw it here first, I’m coining it update: um, nevermind.) seems to be gaining momentum. The practice of mining large datasets has been around in private business for a while, as large corporations use sales records or other data to better understand customer behavior.
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