Large-scale data sets of human behavior have the potential to fundamentally transform the
way we fight diseases, design cities, or perform research. Metadata, however, contain …

Every time you make a telephone call, purchase goods using a cred it card, subscribe to a
magazine or pay your taxes, that information goes into a data base somewhere. Further …

To score is human. Ranking individuals by grades and other performance numbers is as old
as human society. Consumer scores—numbers given to individuals to describe or predict …

Something important is changing in how we as a society use computers to mine data. In the
past decade, machine-learning algorithms have helped to analyze historical data, often …

Recent advances in technology are rapidly changing the way we interact with the physical
world around us. As a result, our digital footprint and digital breadcrumbs are tracked and …

We show that easily accessible digital records of behavior, Facebook Likes, can be used to
automatically and accurately predict a range of highly sensitive personal attributes including …

The collection and analysis of telemetry data from user's devices is routinely performed by
many software companies. Telemetry collection leads to improved user experience but …

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Large-scale aggregate analyses of anonymized data can yield valuable results and insights
that address public health challenges and provide new avenues for scientific discovery …

Zipf-like distributions characterize a wide set of phenomena in physics, biology, economics,
and social sciences. In human activities, Zipf's law describes, for example, the frequency of …