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Impacting Climate Policy: The Pandemic, Polarization, and You
You’re wearing your pajamas and fuzzy slippers while sitting in your bedroom. You’re also on an important Zoom call and it’s 2 pm in the...
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Jan 7, 20234 min read


An Inhuman Interview
Recently, OpenAI, an AI research company, released ChatGPT, the latest in its series of text-based AI models. It was an unexpected...
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Jan 6, 20235 min read


China’s Population Crisis May Be Its Achilles’ Heel
If you randomly select five people across the globe, statistically, one of them will be Chinese. According to the Seventh National Census...
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Nov 4, 20227 min read


Big Brother’s Rude Awakening: How data ought to be protected in the age of the internet
Americans have prized individual liberty since the nation’s founding. Naturally, many people are suspicious of the government collecting...
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Jan 8, 20215 min read


American Big Tech Will Not Protect You
For the first 15 years of the 21st century, Democrats and Big Tech seemed to get along. There was something exciting and progressive...
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Nov 20, 20195 min read


A Corporate Obsession: Why the FCC is Failing to Bridge the Digital Divide
On average, Americans spend ten hours staring at a screen every day. The incorporation of internet use into everyday life has become so...
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Apr 20, 20195 min read


Europe, China, and the Future of Data in America
China’s social credit policies have populated news headlines recently, and it’s easy to see why. The social credit score (SCS), which...
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Jun 28, 20185 min read


Why Data Disaggregation Matters for Asian-Americans
Since the 1960s, America has vaunted Asians as the nation’s model minority. Simultaneously overrepresented at Harvard (relative to the...
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Mar 18, 20185 min read


Turning up the Heat: How Wildfires in the West Are Straining Budgets and Communities
This fall, wildfires have been dotting the United States. Cash-strapped state and federal agencies are desperately trying to combat the...
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Feb 17, 20185 min read


Lies, Damned Lies, and Statistics: Exploiting Midterm Data
As the battle for control of the Senate rages on, the American public grows eager for polling data to reveal which politician leads in a...
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Sep 23, 20144 min read


Dire Data: When Voters Begin to Act Like Politicians
Politicians like data. But trends are a different story — harder to confuse and more difficult to misapply, trends can spell out dire...
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Aug 31, 20146 min read


BPR Interview: Stephen Baker, Author of “The Numerati”
Stephen Baker is a former senior writer and technology correspondent for BusinessWeek and the author of “Final Jeopardy” and “The...
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Jul 1, 20131 min read
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