Nathan Eagle on Big Data, Global Development, and Complex Social Systems [Audio]
Nathan Eagle, Omidyar Fellow at the Santa Fe Institute, infers behavioral dynamics on a broad spectrum of scales using technology; from risky behavior in a group of MIT freshman, to cholera outbreaks in Rwanda and wealth in the UK, to disease transmission and slum formations in East Africa. Though the analytical techniques are sophisticated, the tools used are as simple as a mobile phone. Ultimately these insights can be used to actively improve the lives of the billions of people who generate this data and the societies in which they live.
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