Data is often referred to as the oil of our modern age. With the proliferation of technology it’s now a resource that flows all around us, but which is not extractable without costs to privacy. When refined and harnessed, though, it is a source of incredible power to enable everything from more efficient global trade to decisions about what gets published on this very website. Yet when people think about data, they tend to envision more ephemeral applications like
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