‘Data, Algorithms, & Tradecraft’: Keeping A Little Humanity In Big Data

‘Data, Algorithms, & Tradecraft’: Keeping A Little Humanity In Big Data
‘Data, Algorithms, & Tradecraft’: Keeping A Little Humanity In Big Data

ARLINGTON: “Big data” is big business nowadays. Defense contractor Lockheed Martin, for example, boasts their analytical tools have successfully predicted everything from Arab Spring uprisings to the onset of sepsis in hospital patients. But big data can also go wrong in big ways. If you set a powerful program loose on a large enough data…