Rukmini Shrinivasan on What Data Can and Cannot Tell Us
Ideas of India
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Is Google Data a Good Place to Look?
There was this interesting sort of work that was done by, said, stephen devidovitch, just afther. He did using the big data of google. This was anonymizedGoogle searches in a book called everybody lies. What he really found was that people are asking questions through google that they would never ask another human being because of embarrassment or preference falsification. But on the other hand, when you're thinking about caste and religion, i mean, three year old knows this stuff, right?
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