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Published on
31 May 2013
31 May 2013
Viktor Mayer-Schönberger and Ken Cukier use the story of former Secretary of Defence, Robert McNamara, a man who believed Truth lay in data, to illustrate the dangers of over-reliance on numbers in big data analysis.