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Tim Harford on the The Big Data Trap
6th January 2015
Our good friend Tim Harford recently gave the annual lecture at the Royal Statistical Society and the talk is available via You Tube.
'Big Data' is the catch-all term that is big news for business. Tim Harford looks at some of the most celebrated uses of 'big data' and asks whether we're at risk of forgetting some old and important statistical lessons.