Tracey Wallace

37 Articles

10 Reasons People Cringe at Big Data, But Shouldn’t

We'll let you on a little secret: even we know that big…

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Your Digital Doppelgänger or Why Third-Party Data Undermines Personal Agency

The uncanny valley — a sociotechnological reality in which tech becomes so…

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Think You Can Escape Big Data? Think Again

Janet Vertesi's "How I Hid My Pregnancy from Big Data" story went…

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When Privacy is Good Business

Big data can be scary. After all, its suggested implications seek to…

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Data-Driven Journalism Will Save Democracy and Your Identity, Too

As it currently stands, big data is one seriously wild, wild west.…

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Big Data Isn’t Just a Product of the Internet, It Is the “New Internet

Mary Meeker, of Kleiner Perkins Claufield & Byers, released her annual "Internet…

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True Data-Driven Decision Making Requires Smart, Honest Data Collection Strategies

Data-driven decision making is getting a lot of recent press. As big…

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Does Data Mining Require a PhD? Probably Not, But The New York Times Hired One

Data intelligence is the future of journalism — even a 162-year-old publication…

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Big Data is Revolutionizing How You Think, and That’s a Good Thing

Our grandchildren will know of the sins we committed — and they…

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The Fight for an Internet for the People [VIDEO]

Big data sparks a lot of fear around security, privacy and exactly…

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