The erosion—and deliberate erasure—of government data by the Trump Administration threaten both public safety and the US economy, says former US chief data scientist Denice Ross.
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Posted inSeptember/October 2023
Info Wars
The global financial system runs on a network of undersea fiber optic cables built and operated by the United States. Control of this data stream gives America incredible—and insufficiently discussed—power.
Posted inPolitics
The Surveillance Threat After Roe Is Worse Than You Think
Justin Sherman, a Duke University expert on data brokers, discusses the dangers to reproductive health and all that can go wrong in a brave new world of menstrual tracking apps.
Posted inFeatured, July/August 2019, Magazine
What Your Data Is Really Worth to Facebook
And why you deserve a cut.
Posted inApril/May/June 2019, Cover, Featured, Magazine
Big Tech Is Spying on Your Wallet
How data is letting corporations wring every penny from your purchases.
Posted inPolitical Animal
How the Trump Administration Will Use “Alternative Facts”
They are already undermining federal data.
Posted inPolitics
Using Bayesian Analysis of Police Killings
A closer look at Roland Fryer’s “startling” racial disparity study.
Posted inGovernment, Magazine, May/June 2013, Politics
Should Martin O’Malley Be President?
The governor of Maryland is a long shot for the White House—and the best manager in government today.
Posted inGovernment, Magazine, May/June 2013
A Short History of Data-Driven Government
If it can be said that there is a father of data-based government, it is a famous and controversial one: Robert McNamara. As a young captain during World War II, McNamara was assigned to the Army Air Corps Office of Statistical Control, where he applied the ideas about efficiency and cost-effectiveness that he’d learned at […]
Posted inGovernment, Magazine, May/June 2011
The Information Sage
Meet Edward Tufte, the graphics guru to the power elite who is revolutionizing how we see data.
