Sat, Sep 24th
2011
From TEDxBoston, an entertaining and thought-provoking introduction to “culturomics”, the application of data analysis to the historical record of human culture. Found this via Brain Pickings, which explains:
From advising you on the best career choices for early success to figuring out when an artist is being censored to proving that we’re forgetting the past exponentially more quickly than ever before, the data speaks volumes when queried with intelligence and curiosity.If you’re intelligent, or curious, or both, this will get you exploring.
