There are countless applications of big data that help us solve many of the problems that define life today in American society. This video highlights two UCLA Social Science researchers, Till von Wachter (Prof. Economics, Assoc. Dean of Research Division of Social Science, and Fac. Dir. California Policy Lab) and Safiya Noble (Prof. Information Studies, African American Studies, and Gender Studies, Co-Dir. UCLA Center for Critical Internet Inquiry), and the important, big data research they are leading in the social sciences.
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