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Chris Wiggins and Matthew L Jones

Chris Wiggins and Matthew L Jones
Chris Wiggins is an associate professor of applied mathematics at Columbia University and the New York Times’s chief data scientist.

Matthew L. Jones is a professor of history at Columbia University and has been a Guggenheim Fellow.


From Eugenics to Targeted Advertising: The Dark Role of Data in Sorting Humanity

Chris Wiggins and Matthew L Jones on the Origins of Big Data
March 27, 2023  By Chris Wiggins and Matthew L Jones
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