Welcome to the 37th edition of the Pivot Points and Pivot Points blog e-newsletter, by Ed Crego, George Muñoz, and Frank Islam...

This Week's Post: Big Data, Deep Learning
Big Data and Deep Learning are two new, putatively objective and machine-driven approaches that promise to revolutionize policy development and analysis.  But they’ll require a lot of human intelligence and insight to reach their potential…

http://bit.ly/bigdata_deeplearning 


Featured Post: Making America The Creation Nation Again
Big Data and Deep Learning come from a long line of innovation, from a country that literally proved you can make a silk purse from a sow's ear.  How the public & private sectors are working together to make us a "creation nation" again, and bring home the bacon for everyone...

http://bit.ly/creation_nation


What We’re Reading: MIT Technology Review, Gary Marcus, Kate Crawford
MIT’s Technology Review celebrates Big Data and Deep Learning as two of the top 10 technology breakthroughs of 2013…

http://bit.ly/mittech_bigdata 
http://bit.ly/mittech_deeplearning

New Yorker writer Gary Marcus, professor of psychology at NYU, looks at the history and questions the hype behind Deep Learning…

http://bit.ly/marcus_deeplearning 

Foreign Policy reporter Kate Crawford, of Microsoft Research and MIT, catalogs potential problems of bias, privacy, and downright nefariousness where Big Data is concerned…

http://bit.ly/crawford_bigdata 


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