Quantamentals, Signal Surfing and Fast Walkers: Mapping the Rise of Weird Data Paul X. McCarthy Politics & Economics Paul X. McCarthy, UNSW Australia One of the lesser understood aspects of what you can do with massive stockpiles of data is the ability to use data that would traditionally have been overlooked or in some...
What “The Big Short” Gets Right—and Wrong Amine Ouazad Politics & Economics For a Hollywood movie, “The Big Short” is surprisingly sophisticated about what caused the financial crisis, but it fumbles a few key issues. Recently, I took a small break from my research work to see...
