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The New Digital Divide

August 1, 2013

15 years ago, there was a big racial divide in internet access. Since then, use of the web increased dramatically, and this gap has diminished. However, as Sharad Goel, Jake Hofman and I show in our paper, substantial inequalities still persist across demographic groups. When I was working at Yahoo! with Duncan Watts, we started investigating Nielsen data on the browsing history of quarter million individuals, predicting user demographics from their history and categorizing differences in online experience. This Messy Matters article explains some of our findings.

Read on Messy Matters

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For a fistful of data

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A wandering data scientist plays everybody against each other.

Here I share some of my blog posts, talks, interviews and articles published elsewhere. Sometimes I also cross-post articles by others about my work.

In case you were wondering, the runner-up for the title of this blog was The Big Datawski. It really tied the room together, but I liked (squints eyes, with a raspy voice) For a Fistful of Data better.