What is the harm in privatizing the surveillance state?
By: Richard W. Sharp & Patrick W. ZimmermanBig Tech makes a mountain of money by collecting as much personal data about as many people as...More
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Payroll efficiency: What baseball teams do the most with the least?
By: Patrick W. ZimmermanApparently the Oakland A’s just are that efficient. They are not just the team most closely associated with spotting market inefficiencies (thanks,...More
Burning down the house: The number of wildfires is (surprise!) correlated with climate change
By: Patrick W. ZimmermanIf you live in the American West, chances are you’ve smelt smoke from the annual summer wildfires recently. Lots of it. Eye-stinging...More
GDPR highlights just how much JavaScript webpages devote to tracking you (yes, you)
By: Kate W. Zimmerman and Patrick W. ZimmermanNew regulations like the EU’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) are interesting points of inflection, a shift in...More
On the origin of data
By: Rich W. Sharp & Patrick ZimmermanThere is a general assumption that numbers are precise. Because of math or science or number fairy dust or...More