Data Will Help Us is a brief manifesto about the promise and perils of data, commissioned by The New York Times. “Big Data” has become a kind of ubiquitous modern salve that now gets applied to almost any kind of ailment. In fields ranging from education, to government, to healthcare, to advertising, to dating, to science, to war, we’re abandoning ti...

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We feel fine is a project that explores human emotions on a global scale. Every few minutes the system searches the social networks, based on the expressions “I feel” and “I am feeling”, human sentiments. The content of the full sentence is recorded and feeling expressed is identified according to the adjectives included in that sentence. Where possibl...

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