How Metadata Could Have Squelched The Civil Rights Movement
Perhaps it would be of interest to the ongoing discussion about NSA accumulation of phone use metadata to see how some math gets mixed with metadata in a relatively simple universe. Professor Kieran Healy does just that (found via memeorandum) using a database of 256 names of socially active Bostonians from 1775. Based only on identification of individuals with seven suspected subversive groups, … [Continued at NaPP]