Buzzfeed Wants to Use Facebook for Political Polling: What Could Go Wrong?

Buzzfeed Wants to Use Facebook for Political Polling: What Could Go Wrong?

May require another article that gives some more info about sentiment analysis.

Facebook rolls out new tools to help prevent suicides

Facebook rolls out new tools to help prevent suicides

Good for discussion of a few articles about Facebook's impact

Big-Data Project on 1918 Flu Reflects Key Role of Humanists

Big-Data Project on 1918 Flu Reflects Key Role of Humanists

Reasons I like article:

•  lots of use of the term "algorithm"
• collaboration between humanities and computer science

For discussion:

• benefits of being a CSist with humanist skills and/or humanist with CS skills
• effect on collaboration?
• how messy the data is 

Project Bangla Pi: Why I Care about Affordable Computing

Project Bangla Pi: Why I Care about Affordable Computing

A story from a senior at Harvard.

Facebook's Inadvertent Algorithmic Cruelty

The power of social media and algorithms. Discuss how to know if a post has good or bad connotations.

http://meyerweb.com/eric/thoughts/2014/12/24/inadvertent-algorithmic-cruelty/

http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/dec/30/facebook-apologise-year-in-review-algorithm?CMP=share_btn_fb

How data help Duke refine approach on basketball court

How data help Duke refine approach on basketball court

Probably an extra credit article, highlights a job (Duke basketball’s director of information technology) that students may not know exists.

The Huge, Unseen Operation Behind the Accuracy of Google Maps

The Huge, Unseen Operation Behind the Accuracy of Google Maps

Students often speculate about how Google makes various products, including its maps.  Always good to see what's happening behind the scenes.