Kenneth Cukier

Kenneth Cukier

Data Editor, The Economist

Kenneth Cukier is the Data Editor of The Economist. His writings have also appeared in The New York Times, The Washington Post, Prospect, The Financial Times and Foreign Affairs, among others. He has been a frequent commentator on business and technology matters for CBS, CNN, NPR, the BBC and others.

Kenneth is co-author of BIG DATA: A Revolution That Will Transform How We Live, Work, and Think.

 

 

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Typically you have to commit a crime before you are penalized for that crime. But what if Big Data can predict that you have a likelihood of committing a crime?
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Datafication refers to the fact that daily interactions of living things can be rendered into a data format and put to social use.