The New York City Commission on Human Rights has partnered with the city’s data analytics office for help using open data to go after bad landlords. One of the lesser-known protections of the New York City Human Rights Law prohibits housing providers from discriminating against potential tenants based on their...
Yes, the Clinton campaign struggled with messaging; that doesn’t mean we should throw away everything we’ve learned about how data can make campaigns more effective.
A skeptic’s take on Trump’s purported big data juggernaut, Cambridge Analytica
While we try to understand the lessons of 2016, it is time to deal with a key missing element in the conversation on the future of Democratic technology: the voices of people who are not straight, white men.
Please don’t fool yourselves into believing that the secret to Trump’s success lay in some grand, secret data innovation.
Campaign tech bullshit is found at the intersection of two forces: (1) the incentive to freak your opponents out by sounding more sophisticated than you are, (2) the incentive to build a reputation for the next campaign cycle.
Reminder: some of these new products represent a big change. But it often isn’t the change we were expecting or fearing.
Equating Upworthy with clickbait has always obscured the real secret to their success: the company is among the web’s most deft practitioners of sophisticated analytics.
"Journalists should be pushing campaigns to answer ethical questions about the work they're doing."