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Publication

Machines don't think, but neither do people

Oct. 6, 2015

César A. Hidalgo

Abstract

For years, the federal government, states and some cities have enthusiastically made vast troves of data open to the public. Acres of paper…

As recently as a few weeks ago, “metadata” was an obscure term known mainly to techies and academics. Broadly defined, metadata is data abo…