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seeing-like-a-stata

How certain data-driven schemes to improve the human condition have failed (while achieving a high R^2).

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Seeing Like A

How certain data-driven schemes to improve the human condition have failed

(while achieving a high R^2). Brian Abelson @brianabelson | brianabelson@gmail.com

Senior Data Scientist, Enigma

Research Fellow, Tow Center

slides: abelson.nyc/seeing-like-a-stata

Certain forms of knowledge and control require a narrowing of vision. The great advantage of such tunnel vision is that it brings into sharp focus certain limited aspects of an otherwise far more complex and unwieldy reality. This very simplification, in turn, makes the phenomenon at the center of the field of vision more legible and hence more susceptible to careful measurement and calculation. - James C. Scott, Seeing Like a State

How Can We See...

The Forest Through The Trees?

How Can We See...

Poverty from Rooftops?

The Importance of A Roof Over One's Head

The Importance of A Roof Over One's Head

The Crowd in the Cloud

Seeing Like a Statistician

Seeing Like a Statistician

Success?

Pro Bono

Non Profit

Social Good

Crowdsourced

GIS

Computer Vision

Machine Learning

Failure?

Solution?

  • Better Satellite Imagery ?

  • More Training Data ?

  • Multilevel Modeling ?

Data Science or...

...Data Scientology

Dataland?

Big Data is a Cultural Phenomenon ?

Big Data is a Cult ?

Thanks!

And sorry for the puns...

Brian Abelson @brianabelson | brianabelson@gmail.com

Senior Data Scientist, Enigma

Research Fellow, Tow Center