Steven Levitt
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124 appearances
3 recordings
1 series
first heard Jun 2014
last heard Jun 2014
Steven Levitt’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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We also do a very important option on the website, which is to offer best two out of three if you really want to make sure the gods don't make a mistake.
Do you want the two out of three option or do you want to go with just one cause?
Just the one.
Okay, here we go.
Heads you move in, tails you don't.
Here we go.
What were you hoping for?
You're hoping for heads?
I think the biases that humans have suggest that there's not enough quitting going on.
Changing the path that you're on.
Even though today I feel like I should change, I think to myself, OK, I could change today or...
I could stick with it for one more day and I could quit tomorrow.
Stephen Levitt.
Google Flu Trends was a lot faster at detecting the spread of the flu than traditional surveillance systems that required monitoring at hospital's
And this created a great deal of attention, there were headlines, and I think it has been held up as one of the exemplars of the potential of big data.
It started going off kilter, and systematically so, which was a bit odd.
I've worked with probably 10 of the biggest companies in the world, and they have been completely and totally ineffective at harnessing data to do much of anything that's useful.
And part of the problem is just coordinating how to integrate the data in these archaic systems.
But the second piece...
is that there is an incredible lack of talent for analyzing data.
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