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Bright Lights, Big Data: Culturomics and Results-Based Reading …

Until about six months ago, when I finally fled the sinking ship of my academic career for the precarious lifeboat of freelance writing, I worked on the top floor of a sleek, contemporary building in the center of Dublin called the Long Room Hub. High and airy, it overlooked the venerable panorama of Trinity College. The building was intended as […]

Porn, Big Data, And What We Search For When No One's Looking …

Ah, porn. The reason incognito mode was invented. A new paper offers an instructive look into the fascinating perusing habits of warm-blooded Internet users, and compiles all that revealing data into useful charts. (Hat tip to The Atlantic and Wired.)We’ve seen before how porn sites use data to deliver targeted advertising. But this study’s aim is a bit different. The […]