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David Garrity on Boston Herald Radio “Sweeney and Malone”: Big Data, Polls, and is Facebook a News Organization?

November 17 David Garrity joined Steve Sweeney and Joe Malone on Boston Herald Radio. Interview starts at 27 minutes: ((Listen here))

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Investopedia Article: Don’t Blame Big Data for Pollsters’ Failings (AAPL, GOOGL)

On Wednesday, Nov. 9, the New York Times’ Jim Rutenberg wrote, “All the dazzling technology, the big data and the sophisticated modeling that American newsrooms bring to the fundamentally human endeavor of presidential politics could not save American journalism from yet again being behind the story, behind the rest of the country.” But was mis-calling the election

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